The temperature on October 15, 1912 was between 2.3 °C and 13.8 °C and averaged 8.1 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 5.5 hours of sunshine (51%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest. Source: KNMI
April 16 » Harriet Quimby becomes the first woman to fly an airplane across the English Channel.
June 8 » Carl Laemmle incorporates Universal Pictures.
October 8 » The First Balkan War begins when Montenegro declares war against the Ottoman Empire.
November 27 » Spain declares a protectorate over the north shore of Morocco.
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.)
December 19 » William Van Schaick, captain of the steamship General Slocum which caught fire and killed over one thousand people, is pardoned by U.S. President William Howard Taft after 3⁄2 years in Sing Sing prison.
Day of death March 23, 1976
The temperature on March 23, 1976 was between -3.9 °C and 5.8 °C and averaged 0.3 °C. There was 10.5 hours of sunshine (85%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Friday, May 11, 1973 to Monday, December 19, 1977 the cabinet Den Uyl, with Drs. J.M. den Uyl (PvdA) as prime minister.
January 3 » The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, adopted by the United Nations General Assembly, comes into force.
January 21 » Commercial service of Concorde begins with the London-Bahrain and Paris-Rio routes.
September 11 » A bomb planted by a Croatian terrorist, Zvonko Bušić, is found at New York's Grand Central Terminal; one NYPD officer is killed trying to defuse it.
September 21 » Orlando Letelier is assassinated in Washington, D.C. He had been a member of the former Chilean Marxist government.
November 15 » René Lévesque and the Parti Québécois take power to become the first Quebec government of the 20th century clearly in favor of independence.
November 26 » "Anarchy in the U.K.", the debut single of the Sex Pistols, is released, heralding the arrival of punk rock
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