The temperature on May 5, 1912 was between 4.2 °C and 15.8 °C and averaged 10.1 °C. There was 7.1 hours of sunshine (47%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. Source: KNMI
January 17 » British polar explorer Captain Robert Falcon Scott reaches the South Pole, one month after Roald Amundsen.
March 5 » Italo-Turkish War: Italian forces are the first to use airships for military purposes, employing them for reconnaissance behind Turkish lines.
March 30 » Sultan Abd al-Hafid signs the Treaty of Fez, making Morocco a French protectorate.
April 15 » The British passenger liner RMSTitanic sinks in the North Atlantic at 2:20a.m., two hours and forty minutes after hitting an iceberg. Only 710 of 2,227 passengers and crew on board survive.
April 16 » Harriet Quimby becomes the first woman to fly an airplane across the English Channel.
September 28 » The Ulster Covenant is signed by some 500,000 Ulster Protestant Unionists in opposition to the Third Irish Home Rule Bill.
Day of death August 5, 1964
The temperature on August 5, 1964 was between 10.3 °C and 21.4 °C and averaged 15.7 °C. There was 5.9 hours of sunshine (39%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. Source: KNMI
January 30 » In a bloodless coup, General Nguyễn Khánh overthrows General Dương Văn Minh's military junta in South Vietnam.
March 31 » Brazilian General Olímpio Mourão Filho orders his troops to move towards Rio de Janeiro, beginning the coup d'état.
April 4 » The Beatles occupy the top five positions on the Billboard Hot 100 pop chart.
May 29 » The Arab League meets in East Jerusalem to discuss the Palestinian question, leading to the formation of the Palestine Liberation Organization.
September 4 » Scotland's Forth Road Bridge near Edinburgh officially opens.
October 1 » Japanese Shinkansen ("bullet trains") begin high-speed rail service from Tokyo to Osaka.
Day of cremation August 7, 1964
The temperature on August 7, 1964 was between 14.9 °C and 23.1 °C and averaged 18.3 °C. There was 1.8 mm of rain during 1.0 hours. There was 2.7 hours of sunshine (18%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
January 13 » Anti-Muslim riots break out in Calcutta, resulting in 100 deaths.
April 7 » A bulldozer kills Rev. Bruce W. Klunder, a civil rights activist, during a school segregation protest in Cleveland, Ohio, sparking a riot.
July 31 » Ranger program: Ranger 7 sends back the first close-up photographs of the moon, with images 1,000 times clearer than anything ever seen from earth-bound telescopes.
September 21 » Malta gains independence from the United Kingdom, but remains in the Commonwealth.
September 21 » The North American XB-70 Valkyrie, the world's fastest bomber, makes its maiden flight from Palmdale, California.
October 1 » The Free Speech Movement is launched on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley.
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