The temperature on October 3, 1911 was between 4.2 °C and 13.8 °C and averaged 8.9 °C. There was 7.1 hours of sunshine (62%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
January 5 » Kappa Alpha Psi, the world's third oldest and largest black fraternity, is founded at Indiana University.
April 29 » Tsinghua University, one of mainland China's leading universities, is founded.
June 22 » George V and Mary of Teck are crowned King and Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
July 7 » The United States, UK, Japan, and Russia sign the North Pacific Fur Seal Convention of 1911 banning open-water seal hunting, the first international treaty to address wildlife preservation issues.
September 29 » Italy declares war on the Ottoman Empire.
December 24 » Lackawanna Cut-Off railway line opens in New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
Day of marriage December 8, 1934
The temperature on December 8, 1934 was between 5.7 °C and 10.2 °C and averaged 7.9 °C. There was 1.6 mm of rain during 2.7 hours. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
January 1 » Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay becomes a United States federal prison.
July 11 » Engelbert Zaschka of Germany flies his large human-powered aircraft, the Zaschka Human-Power Aircraft, about 20 meters at Berlin Tempelhof Airport without assisted take-off.
July 20 » West Coast waterfront strike: In Seattle, police fire tear gas on and club 2,000 striking longshoremen. The governor of Oregon calls out the National Guard to break a strike on the Portland docks.
July 25 » The Nazis assassinate Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss in a failed coup attempt.
August 11 » The first civilian prisoners arrive at the Federal prison on Alcatraz Island.
November 11 » The Shrine of Remembrance in Melbourne, Australia is opened.
Day of death November 21, 1980
The temperature on November 21, 1980 was between 10.9 °C and 12.6 °C and averaged 11.8 °C. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 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 24 » The United States Olympic hockey team completes its Miracle on Ice by defeating Finland 4–2 to win the gold medal.
April 9 » The Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein kills philosopher Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr and his sister Bint al-Huda after three days of torture.
April 18 » The Republic of Zimbabwe (formerly Rhodesia) comes into being, with Canaan Banana as the country's first President. The Zimbabwean dollar replaces the Rhodesian dollar as the official currency.
June 27 » The 'Ustica massacre': Itavia Flight 870 crashes in the sea while en route from Bologna to Palermo, Italy, killing all 81 on board.
September 17 » Former Nicaraguan President Anastasio Somoza Debayle is killed in Asunción, Paraguay.
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