January 24 » Second Boer War: Boers stop a British attempt to break the Siege of Ladysmith in the Battle of Spion Kop.
March 24 » Mayor of New York City Robert Anderson Van Wyck breaks ground for a new underground "Rapid Transit Railroad" that would link Manhattan and Brooklyn.
May 22 » The Associated Press is formed in New York City as a non-profit news cooperative.
July 2 » The first Zeppelin flight takes place on Lake Constance near Friedrichshafen, Germany.
July 9 » The Federation of Australia is given royal assent.
July 19 » The first line of the Paris Métro opens for operation.
Day of death April 12, 1979
The temperature on April 12, 1979 was between 7.1 °C and 16.5 °C and averaged 11.3 °C. There was 3.8 mm of rain during 2.5 hours. There was 5.5 hours of sunshine (40%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. 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.
January 7 » Third Indochina War: Cambodian–Vietnamese War: Phnom Penh falls to the advancing Vietnamese troops, driving out Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge.
February 7 » Pluto moves inside Neptune's orbit for the first time since either was discovered.
February 13 » An intense windstorm strikes western Washington and sinks a ⁄2-mile-long section of the Hood Canal Bridge.
September 16 » Eight people escaped from East Germany to the west in a homemade hot air balloon.
September 22 » A bright flash, resembling the detonation of a nuclear weapon, is observed near the Prince Edward Islands. Its cause is never determined.
October 18 » The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) begins allowing people to have home satellite earth stations without a federal government license.
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