The temperature on December 16, 1906 was between -3.0 °C and 3.6 °C and averaged -0.2 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 2.8 hours of sunshine (36%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from August 17, 1905 to February 11, 1908 the cabinet De Meester, with Mr. Th. de Meester (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
March 5 » Moro Rebellion: United States Army troops bring overwhelming force against the native Moros in the First Battle of Bud Dajo, leaving only six survivors.
April 14 » The Azusa Street Revival opens and will launch Pentecostalism as a worldwide movement.
June 7 » Cunard Line's RMSLusitania is launched from the John Brown Shipyard, Glasgow (Clydebank), Scotland.
November 9 » Theodore Roosevelt is the first sitting President of the United States to make an official trip outside the country. He did so to inspect progress on the Panama Canal.
December 4 » Alpha Phi Alpha the first black intercollegiate Greek lettered fraternity was founded at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.
December 30 » The All-India Muslim League is founded in Dacca, East Bengal, British India (later Dhaka, Bangladesh).
Day of marriage May 29, 1936
The temperature on May 29, 1936 was between 4.9 °C and 14.4 °C and averaged 9.9 °C. There was 2.8 hours of sunshine (17%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
March 5 » First flight of K5054, the first prototype Supermarine Spitfire advanced monoplane fighter aircraft in the United Kingdom.
June 11 » The London International Surrealist Exhibition opens.
July 11 » The Triborough Bridge in New York City is opened to traffic.
August 3 » A fire wipes out Kursha-2 in the Meshchera Lowlands, Ryazan Oblast, Russia, killing 1,200 and leaving only 20 survivors.
August 24 » The Australian Antarctic Territory is created.
December 30 » The United Auto Workers union stages its first sitdown strike.
Day of death December 12, 1995
The temperature on December 12, 1995 was between 1.3 °C and 4.4 °C and averaged 2.9 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 3.7 hours of sunshine (47%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, August 22, 1994 to Monday, August 3, 1998 the cabinet a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabinet-Kok_I" class="extern">Kok I, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
February 21 » Steve Fossett lands in Leader, Saskatchewan, Canada becoming the first person to make a solo flight across the Pacific Ocean in a balloon.
February 28 » Former Australian Liberal party leader John Hewson resigns from the Australian parliament almost two years after losing the 1993 Australian federal election.
March 22 » Cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov returns to earth after setting a record of 438 days in space.
May 1 » Croatian War of Independence: Croatian forces launch Operation Flash.
July 27 » The Korean War Veterans Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C..
September 28 » Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat sign the Interim Agreement on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.
Day of burial December 16, 1995
The temperature on December 16, 1995 was between -3.8 °C and 0.8 °C and averaged -1.7 °C. There was 6.1 hours of sunshine (79%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, August 22, 1994 to Monday, August 3, 1998 the cabinet a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabinet-Kok_I" class="extern">Kok I, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
January 19 » After being struck by lightning the crew of Bristow Flight 56C are forced to ditch. All 18 aboard are later rescued.
February 22 » The Corona reconnaissance satellite program, in existence from 1959 to 1972, is declassified.
March 14 » Norman Thagard becomes the first American astronaut to ride to space on board a Russian launch vehicle.
May 24 » While attempting to return to Leeds Bradford Airport in the United Kingdom, Knight Air Flight 816 crashes in Harewood, North Yorkshire, killing all 12 people on board.
August 21 » Atlantic Southeast Airlines Flight 529, an Embraer EMB 120 Brasilia, attempts to divert to West Georgia Regional Airport after the left engine fails, but the aircraft crashes in Carroll County near Carrollton, Georgia, killing nine of the 29 people on board.
December 20 » American Airlines Flight 965, a Boeing 757, crashes into a mountain 50km north of Cali, Colombia killing 159.
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