The temperature on December 19, 1912 was between 0.2 °C and 7.0 °C and averaged 3.9 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
February 14 » Arizona is admitted as the 48th and the last contiguous U.S. state.
February 14 » The U.S. Navy commissions its first class of diesel-powered submarines.
May 5 » Pravda, the "voice" of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, begins publication in Saint Petersburg.
June 4 » Massachusetts becomes the first state of the United States to set a minimum wage.
October 7 » The Helsinki Stock Exchange sees its first transaction.
November 28 » Albania declares its independence from the Ottoman Empire.
Day of death February 12, 1991
The temperature on February 12, 1991 was between -10.1 °C and 1.3 °C and averaged -3.4 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain during 3.0 hours. There was 2.8 hours of sunshine (29%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, November 7, 1989 to Monday, August 22, 1994 the cabinet Lubbers III, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
April 29 » The 7.0 Mw Racha earthquake affects Georgia with a maximum MSK intensity of IX (Destructive), killing 270 people.
May 15 » Édith Cresson becomes France's first female Prime Minister.
May 21 » Mengistu Haile Mariam, president of the People's Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, flees Ethiopia, effectively bringing the Ethiopian Civil War to an end.
June 17 » Apartheid: The South African Parliament repeals the Population Registration Act which required racial classification of all South Africans at birth.
June 25 » Slovenia and Croatia declare their independence by referendum from Yugoslavia.
July 10 » Boris Yeltsin takes office as the first elected President of Russia.
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