The temperature on February 18, 1979 was between -8.3 °C and -4.9 °C and averaged -6.3 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain during 3.0 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast. 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 7 » Third Indochina War: Cambodian–Vietnamese War: Phnom Penh falls to the advancing Vietnamese troops, driving out Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge.
February 14 » In Kabul, Setami Milli militants kidnap the American ambassador to Afghanistan, Adolph Dubs who is later killed during a gunfight between his kidnappers and police.
April 11 » Ugandan dictator Idi Amin is deposed.
July 9 » A car bomb destroys a Renault motor car owned by "Nazi hunters" Serge and Beate Klarsfeld outside their home in France in an unsuccessful assassination attempt.
September 1 » The American space probe Pioneer 11 becomes the first spacecraft to visit Saturn when it passes the planet at a distance of 21,000 kilometres (13,000mi).
October 31 » Western Airlines Flight 2605 crashes on landing in Mexico City, killing 73 people.
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