The temperature on February 24, 1912 was between 0.6 °C and 10.3 °C and averaged 6.4 °C. There was 8.2 mm of rain. There was 2.7 hours of sunshine (26%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest. Source: KNMI
January 17 » British polar explorer Captain Robert Falcon Scott reaches the South Pole, one month after Roald Amundsen.
February 14 » Arizona is admitted as the 48th and the last contiguous U.S. state.
April 14 » The British passenger liner RMSTitanic hits an iceberg in the North Atlantic at 23:40 (sinks morning of April 15th).
May 8 » Paramount Pictures is founded.
May 13 » The Royal Flying Corps, the forerunner of the Royal Air Force, is established in the United Kingdom.
November 28 » Albania declares its independence from the Ottoman Empire.
Day of death June 21, 1965
The temperature on June 21, 1965 was between 7.5 °C and 24.2 °C and averaged 18.1 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain during 0.1 hours. There was 11.7 hours of sunshine (70%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. Source: KNMI
March 8 » Thirty-five hundred United States Marines are the first American land combat forces committed during the Vietnam War.
July 16 » The Mont Blanc Tunnel linking France and Italy opens.
July 29 » Vietnam War: The first 4,000 101st Airborne Division paratroopers arrive in Vietnam, landing at Cam Ranh Bay.
September 7 » Vietnam War: In a follow-up to August's Operation Starlite, United States Marines and South Vietnamese forces initiate Operation Piranha on the Batangan Peninsula.
September 17 » The Battle of Chawinda is fought between Pakistan and India.
November 11 » Southern Rhodesia's Prime Minister Ian Smith unilaterally declares the colony independent as the unrecognised state of Rhodesia
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