The temperature on June 19, 1912 was between 11.2 °C and 27.0 °C and averaged 19.3 °C. There was 10.5 mm of rain. There was 10.8 hours of sunshine (64%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
January 11 » Immigrant textile workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts, go on strike when wages are reduced in response to a mandated shortening of the work week.
April 16 » Harriet Quimby becomes the first woman to fly an airplane across the English Channel.
September 28 » Corporal Frank S. Scott of the United States Army becomes the first enlisted man to die in an airplane crash.
October 17 » Bulgaria, Greece and Serbia declare war on the Ottoman Empire, joining Montenegro in the First Balkan War.
November 19 » First Balkan War: The Serbian Army captures Bitola, ending the five-century-long Ottoman rule of Macedonia.
December 16 » First Balkan War: The Royal Hellenic Navy defeats the Ottoman Navy at the Battle of Elli.
Day of marriage March 11, 1937
The temperature on March 11, 1937 was between -0.8 °C and 6.6 °C and averaged 3.1 °C. There was 7.6 mm of rain during 5.8 hours. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east. Source: KNMI
January 25 » The Guiding Light debuts on NBC radio from Chicago. In 1952 it moves to CBS television, where it remains until September 18, 2009.
May 27 » In California, the Golden Gate Bridge opens to pedestrian traffic, creating a vital link between San Francisco and Marin County, California.
June 30 » The world's first emergency telephone number, 999, is introduced in London.
July 8 » Turkey, Iran, Iraq and Afghanistan sign the Treaty of Saadabad.
August 24 » Spanish Civil War: the Basque Army surrenders to the Italian Corpo Truppe Volontarie following the Santoña Agreement.
September 5 » Spanish Civil War: Llanes falls to the Nationalists following a one-day siege.
Day of death October 8, 1971
The temperature on October 8, 1971 was between 6.2 °C and 17.0 °C and averaged 10.8 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 4.3 hours of sunshine (38%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
February 8 » South Vietnamese ground troops launch an incursion into Laos to try to cut off the Ho Chi Minh trail and stop communist infiltration.
May 13 » Over 900 unarmed Bengali Hindus are murdered in the Demra massacre.
September 13 » Chairman Mao Zedong's second in command and successor Marshal Lin Biao flees the People's Republic of China after the failure of an alleged coup. His plane crashes in Mongolia, killing all aboard.
November 10 » In Cambodia, Khmer Rouge forces attack the city of Phnom Penh and its airport, killing 44, wounding at least 30 and damaging nine aircraft.
November 30 » Iran seizes the Greater and Lesser Tunbs from the Emirates of Sharjah and Ras Al Khaimah.
December 6 » Pakistan severs diplomatic relations with India, initiating the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971.
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