The temperature on March 21, 1912 was between 0.8 °C and 8.8 °C and averaged 4.8 °C. There was 7.1 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
March 5 » Italo-Turkish War: Italian forces are the first to use airships for military purposes, employing them for reconnaissance behind Turkish lines.
April 18 » The Cunard liner RMSCarpathia brings 705 survivors from the RMSTitanic to New York City.
October 17 » Bulgaria, Greece and Serbia declare war on the Ottoman Empire, joining Montenegro in the First Balkan War.
October 18 » First Balkan War: King Peter I of Serbia issues a declaration "To the Serbian People", as his country joins the war.
October 24 » First Balkan War: The Battle of Kumanovo concludes with the Serbian victory against the Ottoman Empire.
November 12 » King George I of Greece makes a triumphal entry into Thessaloniki after its liberation from 482 years of Ottoman rule.
Day of marriage September 16, 1936
The temperature on September 16, 1936 was between 9.8 °C and 18.5 °C and averaged 13.6 °C. There was 2.7 hours of sunshine (21%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
February 16 » The Popular Front wins the 1936 Spanish general election.
July 11 » The Triborough Bridge in New York City is opened to traffic.
July 26 » Spanish Civil War: Germany and Italy decide to intervene in the war in support for Francisco Franco and the Nationalist faction.
August 19 » The Great Purge of the Soviet Union begins when the first of the Moscow Trials is convened.
October 9 » Boulder Dam (later Hoover Dam) begins to generate electricity and transmit it to Los Angeles.
November 3 » Franklin D. Roosevelt is re-elected President of the United States.
Day of death February 24, 1977
The temperature on February 24, 1977 was between 3.3 °C and 11.2 °C and averaged 7.7 °C. There was 6.5 mm of rain during 6.0 hours. There was 1.2 hours of sunshine (11%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east. 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.
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 24 » The Atocha massacre occurs in Madrid during the Spanish transition to democracy.
January 28 » The first day of the Great Lakes Blizzard of 1977 which dumps 10 feet (3.0m) of snow in one day in Upstate New York, with Buffalo, Syracuse, Watertown, and surrounding areas are most affected.
March 9 » The Hanafi Siege: In a thirty-nine-hour standoff, armed Hanafi Muslims seize three Washington, D.C., buildings.
May 14 » A Dan-Air Boeing 707 leased to IAS Cargo Airlines crashes on approach to Lusaka International Airport (now Kenneth Kaunda International Airport) in Lusaka, Zambia, killing six people.
July 11 » Martin Luther King, Jr. is posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
December 18 » United Airlines Flight 2860 crashes near Kaysville, Utah, killing all three crew members on board.
Day of cremation February 28, 1977
The temperature on February 28, 1977 was between -4.6 °C and 5.3 °C and averaged 1.0 °C. There was 5.9 hours of sunshine (55%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. 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.
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 19 » President Gerald Ford pardons Iva Toguri D'Aquino (a.k.a. "Tokyo Rose").
June 27 » France grants independence to Djibouti.
July 13 » Somalia declares war on Ethiopia, starting the Ogaden War.
September 18 » Voyager I takes the first distant photograph of the Earth and the Moon together.
November 6 » The Kelly Barnes Dam, located above Toccoa Falls College near Toccoa, Georgia, fails, killing 39.
December 5 » Egypt breaks diplomatic relations with Syria, Libya, Algeria, Iraq and South Yemen. The move is in retaliation for the Declaration of Tripoli against Egypt.
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