The temperature on May 9, 1912 was between 8.2 °C and 17.4 °C and averaged 13.4 °C. There was 0.5 hours of sunshine (3%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
January 4 » The Scout Association is incorporated throughout the British Empire by royal charter.
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.
March 12 » The Girl Guides (later renamed the Girl Scouts of the USA) are founded in the United States.
April 10 » RMS Titanic sets sail from Southampton, England on her maiden and only voyage.
April 14 » The British passenger liner RMSTitanic hits an iceberg in the North Atlantic at 23:40 (sinks morning of April 15th).
April 17 » Russian troops open fire on striking goldfield workers in northeast Siberia, killing at least 150.
Day of death March 5, 1988
The temperature on March 5, 1988 was between -2.0 °C and 5.3 °C and averaged 1.2 °C. There was 4.1 mm of rain during 6.5 hours. There was 3.2 hours of sunshine (29%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, November 4, 1986 to Tuesday, November 7, 1989 the cabinet Lubbers II, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
February 20 » The Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast votes to secede from Azerbaijan and join Armenia, triggering the Nagorno-Karabakh War.
February 29 » Svend Robinson becomes the first member of the House of Commons of Canada to come out as gay.
August 8 » The first night baseball game in the history of Chicago's Wrigley Field (game was rained out in the fourth inning).
October 5 » A Chilean opposition coalition defeats Augusto Pinochet in his re-election attempt.
November 2 » The Morris worm, the first Internet-distributed computer worm to gain significant mainstream media attention, is launched from MIT.
December 13 » PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat gives a speech at a UN General Assembly meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, after United States authorities refused to grant him a visa to visit UN headquarters in New York.
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