The temperature on May 18, 1909 was between 4.1 °C and 15.7 °C and averaged 9.9 °C. There was 11.2 hours of sunshine (71%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
February 2 » The Paris Film Congress opens. An attempt by European producers to form an equivalent to the MPCC cartel in the United States.
February 15 » The Flores Theater fire in Acapulco, Mexico kills 250.
March 31 » Serbia formally withdraws its opposition to Austro-Hungarian actions in the Bosnian Crisis.
June 2 » Alfred Deakin becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the third time.
August 7 » Alice Huyler Ramsey and three friends become the first women to complete a transcontinental auto trip, taking 59 days to travel from New York, New York to San Francisco, California.
August 24 » Workers start pouring concrete for the Panama Canal.
Day of marriage August 14, 1937
The temperature on August 14, 1937 was between 15.5 °C and 18.1 °C and averaged 16.7 °C. There was 4.7 mm of rain during 1.8 hours. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
January 20 » Franklin D. Roosevelt and John Nance Garner are sworn in for their second terms as U.S. President and U.S. Vice President; it is the first time a Presidential Inauguration takes place on January 20 since the 20th Amendment changed the dates of presidential terms.
April 26 » Spanish Civil War: Guernica, Spain, is bombed by German Luftwaffe.
July 5 » Spam, the luncheon meat, is introduced into the market by the Hormel Foods Corporation.
July 7 » The Peel Commission Report recommends the partition of Palestine, which was the first formal recommendation for partition in the history of Palestine.
July 8 » Turkey, Iran, Iraq and Afghanistan sign the Treaty of Saadabad.
September 22 » Spanish Civil War: Peña Blanca is taken, ending the Battle of El Mazuco.
Day of death August 30, 1980
The temperature on August 30, 1980 was between 14.0 °C and 18.6 °C and averaged 15.9 °C. There was 11.9 mm of rain during 8.6 hours. There was 2.5 hours of sunshine (18%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. 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.
January 27 » Through cooperation between the U.S. and Canadian governments, six American diplomats secretly escape hostilities in Iran in the culmination of the Canadian Caper.
February 2 » Reports surface that the FBI is targeting allegedly corrupt Congressmen in the Abscam operation.
April 7 » During the Iran hostage crisis, the United States severs relations with Iran.
April 12 » Transbrasil Flight 303, a Boeing 727, crashes on approach to Hercílio Luz International Airport, in Florianópolis, Brazil. Fifty-five out of the 58 people on board are killed.
July 29 » Iran adopts a new "holy" flag after the Islamic Revolution.
August 27 » A massive bomb planted by extortionist John Birges explodes at Harvey's Resort Hotel in Stateline, Nevada after a failed disarming attempt by the FBI. Although the hotel is damaged, no one is injured.
Day of burial September 5, 1980
The temperature on September 5, 1980 was between 12.1 °C and 19.3 °C and averaged 15.6 °C. There was 4.1 mm of rain during 2.5 hours. There was 0.7 hours of sunshine (5%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. 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.
March 4 » Nationalist leader Robert Mugabe wins a sweeping election victory to become Zimbabwe's first black prime minister.
March 27 » The Norwegian oil platform Alexander L. Kielland collapses in the North Sea, killing 123 of its crew of 212.
October 10 » The Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front is founded in El Salvador.
October 30 » El Salvador and Honduras agree to put the border dispute fought over in 1969's Football War before the International Court of Justice.
December 1 » Ecatepec, State of Mexico, Mexico, becomes a city.
December 24 » Witnesses report the first of several sightings of unexplained lights near RAF Woodbridge, in Rendlesham Forest, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom, an incident called "Britain's Roswell".
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