The temperature on December 17, 1912 was between 0.8 °C and 5.8 °C and averaged 2.7 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain. There was 2.0 hours of sunshine (26%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
January 5 » The 6th All-Russian Conference of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Prague Party Conference) opens. In the course of the conference, Vladimir Lenin and his supporters break from the rest of the party to form the Bolshevik movement.
February 14 » Arizona is admitted as the 48th and the last contiguous U.S. state.
April 16 » Harriet Quimby becomes the first woman to fly an airplane across the English Channel.
May 8 » Paramount Pictures is founded.
September 28 » Corporal Frank S. Scott of the United States Army becomes the first enlisted man to die in an airplane crash.
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 June 20, 1935
The temperature on June 20, 1935 was between 10.2 °C and 16.9 °C and averaged 14.2 °C. There was 13.9 mm of rain during 17.7 hours. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
February 26 » Robert Watson-Watt carries out a demonstration near Daventry which leads directly to the development of radar in the United Kingdom.
May 6 » New Deal: Under the authority of the newly-enacted Federal Emergency Relief Administration, President Franklin D. Roosevelt issues Executive Order 7034 to create the Works Progress Administration.
June 10 » Dr. Robert Smith takes his last drink, and Alcoholics Anonymous is founded in Akron, Ohio, United States, by him and Bill Wilson.
June 25 » Colombia–Soviet Union relations are established.
October 3 » Second Italo-Abyssinian War: Italy invades Ethiopia.
December 18 » The Lanka Sama Samaja Party is founded in Ceylon.
Day of death February 4, 1999
The temperature on February 4, 1999 was between 7.6 °C and 10.9 °C and averaged 9.4 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain during 0.9 hours. There was 0.9 hours of sunshine (10%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
January 1 » Euro currency is introduced in 11 member nations of the European Union (with the exception of the United Kingdom, Denmark, Greece and Sweden; Greece later adopts the euro).
June 12 » Kosovo War: Operation Joint Guardian begins when a NATO-led United Nations peacekeeping force (KFor) enters the province of Kosovo in Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
August 31 » The first of a series of bombings in Moscow kills one person and wounds 40 others.
October 12 » Pervez Musharraf takes power in Pakistan from Nawaz Sharif through a bloodless coup.
December 5 » Helen Clark is sworn in as Prime Minister of New Zealand, the second woman to hold the post and the first to be elected to the role.
December 20 » Macau is handed over to China by Portugal.
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