The temperature on October 26, 1912 was between 0.1 °C and 10.7 °C and averaged 5.8 °C. There was 2.7 mm of rain. There was 0.8 hours of sunshine (8%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. Source: KNMI
January 8 » The African National Congress is founded, under the name South African Native National Congress (SANNC).
February 25 » Marie-Adélaïde, the eldest of six daughters of Guillaume IV, becomes the first reigning Grand Duchess of Luxembourg.
February 29 » The Piedra Movediza (Moving Stone) of Tandil falls and breaks.
March 30 » Sultan Abd al-Hafid signs the Treaty of Fez, making Morocco a French protectorate.
July 8 » Henrique Mitchell de Paiva Couceiro leads an unsuccessful royalist attack against the First Portuguese Republic in Chaves.
October 3 » U.S. forces defeat Nicaraguan rebels at the Battle of Coyotepe Hill.
Day of marriage September 11, 1938
The temperature on September 11, 1938 was between 8.1 °C and 18.8 °C and averaged 13.7 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 0.3 hours. There was 0.4 hours of sunshine (3%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
January 3 » The March of Dimes is established as a foundation to combat infant polio by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
April 30 » The animated cartoon short Porky's Hare Hunt debuts in movie theaters, introducing Happy Rabbit, an early version of Bugs Bunny.
July 20 » The United States Department of Justice files suit in New York City against the motion picture industry charging violations of the Sherman Antitrust Act in regards to the studio system. The case would eventually result in a break-up of the industry in 1948.
September 27 » The ocean liner Queen Elizabeth is launched in Glasgow.
November 9 » The Nazi German diplomat Ernst vom Rath dies from gunshot wounds by Herschel Grynszpan, an act which the Nazis used as an excuse to instigate the 1938 national pogrom, also known as Kristallnacht.
December 13 » The Holocaust: The Neuengamme concentration camp opens in the Bergedorf district of Hamburg, Germany.
Day of death March 5, 1988
The temperature on March 5, 1988 was between -2 °C and 5.3 °C and averaged 1.2 °C. There was 4.1 mm of rain during 6.5 hours. There was 3.2 hours of sunshine (29%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, November 4, 1986 to Tuesday, November 7, 1989 the cabinet Lubbers II, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
April 14 » The USSSamuel B. Roberts strikes a mine in the Persian Gulf during Operation Earnest Will.
June 12 » Austral Líneas Aéreas Flight 46, a McDonnell Douglas MD-81, crashes short of the runway at Libertador General José de San Martín Airport, killing all 22 people on board.
July 6 » The Piper Alpha drilling platform in the North Sea is destroyed by explosions and fires. One hundred sixty-seven oil workers are killed, making it the world's worst offshore oil disaster in terms of direct loss of life.
August 17 » President of Pakistan Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq and U.S. Ambassador Arnold Raphel are killed in a plane crash.
September 18 » The 8888 Uprising in Myanmar comes to an end.
November 15 » In the Soviet Union, the unmanned Shuttle Buran makes its only space flight.
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