The temperature on October 5, 1912 was between -1.5 °C and 12.0 °C and averaged 4.2 °C. There was 6.9 hours of sunshine (61%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
April 10 » RMS Titanic sets sail from Southampton, England on her maiden and only voyage.
April 20 » Opening day for baseball's Tiger Stadium in Detroit, and Fenway Park in Boston.
May 13 » The Royal Flying Corps, the forerunner of the Royal Air Force, is established in the United Kingdom.
August 14 » U.S. Marines invade Nicaragua to support the U.S.-backed government installed there after José Santos Zelaya had resigned three years earlier.
October 24 » First Balkan War: The Battle of Kumanovo concludes with the Serbian victory against the Ottoman Empire.
December 3 » Bulgaria, Greece, Montenegro, and Serbia (the Balkan League) sign an armistice with the Ottoman Empire, temporarily halting the First Balkan War. (The armistice will expire on February 3, 1913, and hostilities will resume.)
Day of death July 25, 1980
The temperature on July 25, 1980 was between 12.2 °C and 26.8 °C and averaged 20.5 °C. There was 12.4 hours of sunshine (78%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east. 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.
August 1 » A train crash kills 18 people in County Cork, Ireland.
September 11 » A new constitution of Chile is established under the influence of then Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, which is subject to controversy in Chile today.
September 18 » Soyuz 38 carries two cosmonauts (including one Cuban) to the Salyut 6 space station.
October 10 » The 7.1 Mw El Asnam earthquake shakes northern Algeria, killing 2,633 and injuring 8,369.
November 12 » The NASA space probe Voyager I makes its closest approach to Saturn and takes the first images of its rings.
November 20 » Lake Peigneur drains into an underlying salt deposit. A misplaced Texaco oil probe had been drilled into the Diamond Crystal Salt Mine, causing water to flow down into the mine, eroding the edges of the hole.
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