The temperature on February 7, 1911 was between -2.9 °C and 4.7 °C and averaged 1.7 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest. Source: KNMI
January 3 » A gun battle in the East End of London left two dead and sparked a political row over the involvement of then-Home Secretary Winston Churchill.
April 8 » Dutch physicist Heike Kamerlingh Onnes discovers superconductivity.
May 31 » The President of Mexico Porfirio Díaz flees the country during the Mexican Revolution.
July 4 » A massive heat wave strikes the northeastern United States, killing 380 people in eleven days and breaking temperature records in several cities.
August 29 » The Canadian Naval Service becomes the Royal Canadian Navy.
December 29 » Mongolia gains independence from the Qing dynasty, enthroning 8th Jebtsundamba Khutughtu as Khagan of Mongolia.
Day of death September 21, 1996
The temperature on September 21, 1996 was between 6.1 °C and 13.9 °C and averaged 10.2 °C. There was 5.9 hours of sunshine (48%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
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February 1 » The Communications Decency Act is passed by the U.S. Congress.
March 18 » A nightclub fire in Quezon City, Philippines kills 162 people.
May 6 » The body of former CIA director William Colby is found washed up on a riverbank in southern Maryland, eight days after he disappeared.
May 28 » U.S. President Bill Clinton's former business partners in the Whitewater land deal, Jim McDougal and Susan McDougal, and the Governor of Arkansas Jim Guy Tucker, are convicted of fraud.
August 14 » Greek Cypriot refugee Solomos Solomou is murdered by Turkish forces while trying to climb a flagpole in order to remove a Turkish flag from its mast in the United Nations Buffer Zone in Cyprus.
December 9 » Gwen Jacob is acquitted of committing an indecent act, giving women the right to be topfree in Ontario, Canada.
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