The temperature on July 5, 1912 was between 12.3 °C and 22.6 °C and averaged 17.5 °C. There was 12.5 hours of sunshine (75%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. Source: KNMI
February 12 » The Xuantong Emperor, the last Emperor of China, abdicates.
April 2 » The ill-fated RMSTitanic begins sea trials.
October 11 » First Balkan War: The day after the Battle of Sarantaporo, Greek troops liberate the city of Kozani.
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.
December 28 » The first municipally owned streetcars take to the streets in San Francisco.
Day of marriage March 30, 1938
The temperature on March 30, 1938 was between 9.0 °C and 13.6 °C and averaged 11.1 °C. There was 0.2 hours of sunshine (2%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
May 26 » In the United States, the House Un-American Activities Committee begins its first session.
June 23 » The Civil Aeronautics Act is signed into law, forming the Civil Aeronautics Authority in the United States.
September 27 » The ocean liner Queen Elizabeth is launched in Glasgow.
September 30 » Britain, France, Germany and Italy sign the Munich Agreement, whereby Germany annexes the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia.
October 30 » Orson Welles broadcasts his radio play of H. G. Wells's The War of the Worlds, causing anxiety in some of the audience in the United States.
November 16 » LSD is first synthesized by Albert Hofmann from ergotamine at the Sandoz Laboratories in Basel.
Day of death October 16, 1976
The temperature on October 16, 1976 was between 2.8 °C and 13.9 °C and averaged 7.9 °C. There was 7.7 hours of sunshine (72%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south. 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 18 » Lebanese Christian militias kill at least 1,000 in Karantina, Beirut.
June 16 » Soweto uprising: A non-violent march by 15,000 students in Soweto, South Africa, turns into days of rioting when police open fire on the crowd.
July 22 » Japan completes its last reparation to the Philippines for war crimes committed during imperial Japan's conquest of the country in the Second World War.
September 10 » A British Airways Hawker Siddeley Trident and an Inex-Adria DC-9 collide near Zagreb, Yugoslavia, killing 176.
November 26 » "Anarchy in the U.K.", the debut single of the Sex Pistols, is released, heralding the arrival of punk rock
Day of cremation October 21, 1976
The temperature on October 21, 1976 was between 7.7 °C and 14.7 °C and averaged 11.1 °C. There was 1.5 mm of rain during 1.2 hours. There was 3.8 hours of sunshine (37%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. 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.
February 9 » Aeroflot Flight 3739, a Tupolev Tu-104, crashes during takeoff from Irkutsk Airport, killing 24.
April 2 » Prince Norodom Sihanouk resigns as leader of Cambodia and is placed under house arrest.
April 9 » The EMD F40PH diesel locomotive enters revenue service with Amtrak.
July 4 » Israeli commandos raid Entebbe airport in Uganda, rescuing all but four of the passengers and crew of an Air France jetliner seized by Palestinian terrorists.
September 19 » Turkish Airlines Flight 452 hits the Taurus Mountains, outskirt of Karatepe, Turkey, killing all 154 passengers and crew.
October 13 » The first electron micrograph of an Ebola virus is taken at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention by Dr. F. A. Murphy.
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