The temperature on April 18, 1911 was between 3.5 °C and 18.8 °C and averaged 12.6 °C. There was 8.0 hours of sunshine (57%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
January 15 » Palestinian Arabic-language Falastin newspaper founded.
May 31 » The President of Mexico Porfirio Díaz flees the country during the Mexican Revolution.
May 31 » The RMS Titanic is launched in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
June 16 » IBM founded as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company in Endicott, New York.
July 24 » Hiram Bingham III re-discovers Machu Picchu, "the Lost City of the Incas".
September 29 » Italy declares war on the Ottoman Empire.
Day of death May 19, 2008
The temperature on May 19, 2008 was between 1.9 °C and 14.5 °C and averaged 9.2 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain during 1.3 hours. There was 4.4 hours of sunshine (28%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, February 22, 2007 to Thursday, October 14, 2010 the cabinet Balkenende IV, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
April 6 » The 2008 Egyptian general strike starts led by Egyptian workers later to be adopted by April 6 Youth Movement and Egyptian activists.
August 13 » Russo-Georgian War: Russian units occupy the Georgian city of Gori.
August 18 » President of Pakistan Pervez Musharraf resigns under threat of impeachment.
September 10 » The Large Hadron Collider at CERN, described as the biggest scientific experiment in history, is powered up in Geneva, Switzerland.
September 24 » Thabo Mbeki resigns as president of South Africa
December 22 » An ash dike ruptured at a solid waste containment area in Roane County, Tennessee, releasing 1.1billion US gallons (4,200,000m) of coal fly ash slurry.
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