The temperature on December 9, 1912 was between 0.1 °C and 7.2 °C and averaged 3.1 °C. There was 4.9 hours of sunshine (62%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
January 17 » British polar explorer Captain Robert Falcon Scott reaches the South Pole, one month after Roald Amundsen.
April 10 » RMS Titanic sets sail from Southampton, England on her maiden and only voyage.
October 19 » Italo-Turkish War: Italy takes possession of what is now Libya from the Ottoman Empire.
November 19 » First Balkan War: The Serbian Army captures Bitola, ending the five-century-long Ottoman rule of Macedonia.
December 6 » The Nefertiti Bust is discovered.
Day of death June 2, 1997
The temperature on June 2, 1997 was between 11.3 °C and 21.5 °C and averaged 16.7 °C. There was 14.8 hours of sunshine (90%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, August 22, 1994 to Monday, August 3, 1998 the cabinet a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabinet-Kok_I" class="extern">Kok I, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
March 9 » Comet Hale–Bopp: Observers in China, Mongolia and eastern Siberia are treated to a rare double feature as an eclipse permits Hale-Bopp to be seen during the day.
June 16 » Fifty people are killed in the Daïat Labguer (M'sila) massacre in Algeria.
July 23 » Digital Equipment Corporation files antitrust charges against chipmaker Intel.
September 14 » Eighty-one killed as five bogies of the Ahmedabad–Howrah Express plunge into a river in Bilaspur district of Madhya Pradesh, India.
October 25 » After a civil war, Denis Sassou Nguesso proclaims himself President of the Republic of the Congo.
December 15 » Tajikistan Airlines Flight 3183 crashes in the desert near Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, killing 85.
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