The temperature on April 19, 1911 was between 9.7 °C and 15.3 °C and averaged 12.9 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
April 27 » Following the resignation and death of William P. Frye, a compromise is reached to rotate the office of President pro tempore of the United States Senate.
August 24 » Manuel de Arriaga is elected and sworn-in as the first President of Portugal.
September 7 » French poet Guillaume Apollinaire is arrested and put in jail on suspicion of stealing the Mona Lisa from the Louvre museum.
September 24 » His Majesty's Airship No. 1, Britain's first rigid airship, is wrecked by strong winds before her maiden flight at Barrow-in-Furness.
October 24 » Orville Wright remains in the air nine minutes and 45 seconds in a glider at Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina.
November 3 » Chevrolet officially enters the automobile market in competition with the Ford Model T.
Day of marriage August 15, 1931
The temperature on August 15, 1931 was between 11.4 °C and 20.6 °C and averaged 15.4 °C. There was 3.7 mm of rain during 0.8 hours. There was 6.3 hours of sunshine (43%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from August 10, 1929 to May 26, 1933 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck III, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
February 13 » The British Raj completes its transfer from Calcutta to New Delhi.
March 25 » The Scottsboro Boys are arrested in Alabama and charged with rape.
May 7 » The stand-off between criminal Francis Crowley and 300 members of the New York Police Department takes place in his fifth-floor apartment on West 91st Street, New York City.
May 14 » Five unarmed civilians are killed in the Ådalen shootings, as the Swedish military is called in to deal with protesting workers.
October 1 » Clara Campoamor persuades the Constituent Cortes to enfranchise women in Spain's new constitution.
December 5 » Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in Moscow was destroyed on orders from Joseph Stalin.
Day of death October 12, 1983
The temperature on October 12, 1983 was between 7.2 °C and 13.2 °C and averaged 11.3 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 1.4 hours of sunshine (13%). 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 Thursday, November 4, 1982 to Monday, July 14, 1986 the cabinet Lubbers I, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
January 1 » The ARPANET officially changes to using TCP/IP, the Internet Protocol, effectively creating the Internet.
May 17 » The U.S. Department of Energy declassifies documents showing world's largest mercury pollution event in Oak Ridge, Tennessee (ultimately found to be 4.2million pounds [1.9kt]), in response to the Appalachian Observer's Freedom of Information Act request.
July 23 » Gimli Glider: Air Canada Flight 143 runs out of fuel and makes a deadstick landing at Gimli, Manitoba.
October 25 » The United States and its Caribbean allies invade Grenada, six days after Prime Minister Maurice Bishop and several of his supporters are executed in a coup d'état.
November 27 » Avianca Flight 011: A Boeing 747 crashes near Madrid's Barajas Airport, killing 181.
December 31 » The AT&T Bell System is broken up by the United States Government.
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