The temperature on September 12, 1910 was between 9.1 °C and 17.9 °C and averaged 12.7 °C. There was 1.9 mm of rain. There was 2.2 hours of sunshine (17%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. Source: KNMI
January 1 » Captain David Beatty is promoted to Rear admiral, and becomes the youngest admiral in the Royal Navy (except for Royal family members) since Horatio Nelson.
April 12 » SMSZrínyi, one of the last pre-dreadnought battleships built by the Austro-Hungarian Navy, is launched.
May 31 » The South Africa Act comes into force, establishing the Union of South Africa.
October 22 » Hawley Harvey Crippen (the first felon to be arrested with the help of radio) is convicted of poisoning his wife.
November 20 » Mexican Revolution: Francisco I. Madero issues the Plan de San Luis Potosí, denouncing Mexican President Porfirio Díaz, calling for a revolution to overthrow the government of Mexico, effectively starting the Mexican Revolution.
December 21 » An underground explosion at the Hulton Bank Colliery No. 3 Pit in Over Hulton, Westhoughton, England, kills 344 miners.
Day of death July 14, 1978
The temperature on July 14, 1978 was between 8.1 °C and 17.8 °C and averaged 13.5 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 2.5 hours of sunshine (15%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, December 19, 1977 to Friday, September 11, 1981 the cabinet Van Agt I, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA/KVP) as prime minister.
February 16 » The first computer bulletin board system is created (CBBS in Chicago).
February 24 » The Yuba County Five disappear in California. Four of their bodies are found four months later.
March 16 » Supertanker Amoco Cadiz splits in two after running aground on the Portsall Rocks, three miles off the coast of Brittany, resulting in the largest oil spill in history at that time.
April 14 » Tbilisi Demonstrations: Thousands of Georgians demonstrate against Soviet attempts to change the constitutional status of the Georgian language.
June 28 » The United States Supreme Court, in Regents of the University of California v. Bakke bars quota systems in college admissions.
August 7 » U.S. President Jimmy Carter declares a federal emergency at Love Canal due to toxic waste that had been disposed of negligently.
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