The temperature on June 8, 1912 was between 9.3 °C and 18.0 °C and averaged 13.7 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. There was 6.6 hours of sunshine (40%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
January 6 » New Mexico is admitted to the Union as the 47th U.S. state.
April 16 » Harriet Quimby becomes the first woman to fly an airplane across the English Channel.
April 18 » The Cunard liner RMSCarpathia brings 705 survivors from the RMSTitanic to New York City.
May 5 » Pravda, the "voice" of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, begins publication in Saint Petersburg.
October 3 » U.S. forces defeat Nicaraguan rebels at the Battle of Coyotepe Hill.
Day of marriage January 4, 1939
The temperature on January 4, 1939 was between -0.9 °C and 3.8 °C and averaged 1.2 °C. There was 6.7 mm of rain during 7.9 hours. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from June 24, 1937 to July 25, 1939 the cabinet Colijn IV, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
In The Netherlands , there was from July 25, 1939 to August 10, 1939 the cabinet Colijn V, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
In The Netherlands , there was from August 10, 1939 to September 3, 1940 the cabinet De Geer II, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
January 14 » Norway claims Queen Maud Land in Antarctica.
March 1 » An Imperial Japanese Army ammunition dump explodes at Hirakata, Osaka, Japan, killing 94.
April 9 » African-American singer Marian Anderson gives a concert at the Lincoln Memorial after being denied the use of Constitution Hall by the Daughters of the American Revolution.
April 14 » The Grapes of Wrath, by American author John Steinbeck is first published by the Viking Press.
May 21 » The Canadian National War Memorial is unveiled by King George VI and Queen Elizabeth in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
June 17 » Last public guillotining in France: Eugen Weidmann, a convicted murderer, is executed in Versailles outside the Saint-Pierre prison.
Day of death May 10, 1940
The temperature on May 10, 1940 was between 5.7 °C and 18.7 °C and averaged 13.1 °C. There was 12.4 hours of sunshine (81%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from August 10, 1939 to September 3, 1940 the cabinet De Geer II, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
In The Netherlands , there was from September 3, 1940 to July 27, 1941 the cabinet Gerbrandy I, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
June 10 » World War II: The Kingdom of Italy declares war on France and the United Kingdom.
June 26 » World War II: Under the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, the Soviet Union presents an ultimatum to Romania requiring it to cede Bessarabia and the northern part of Bukovina.
August 20 » In Mexico City, exiled Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky is fatally wounded with an ice axe by Ramón Mercader. He dies the next day.
August 20 » World War II: British Prime Minister Winston Churchill makes the fourth of his famous wartime speeches, containing the line "Never was so much owed by so many to so few".
October 16 » Holocaust in Poland: The Warsaw Ghetto is established.
October 21 » The first edition of the Ernest Hemingway novel For Whom the Bell Tolls is published.
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