The temperature on March 16, 1911 was between -4.0 °C and 6.9 °C and averaged 0.5 °C. There was 1.3 mm of rain. There was 2.0 hours of sunshine (17%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
January 15 » Palestinian Arabic-language Falastin newspaper founded.
June 16 » IBM founded as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company in Endicott, New York.
July 24 » Hiram Bingham III re-discovers Machu Picchu, "the Lost City of the Incas".
September 25 » An explosion of badly degraded propellant charges on board the French battleship Liberté detonates the forward ammunition magazines and destroys the ship.
October 13 » Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, becomes the first Governor General of Canada of royal descent.
December 24 » Lackawanna Cut-Off railway line opens in New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
Day of death April 20, 1990
The temperature on April 20, 1990 was between 3.5 °C and 12.2 °C and averaged 8.2 °C. There was 1.6 mm of rain during 2.1 hours. There was 0.5 hours of sunshine (4%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, November 7, 1989 to Monday, August 22, 1994 the cabinet Lubbers III, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
January 10 » Time Warner is formed by the merger of Time Inc. and Warner Communications.
June 1 » Cold War: George H. W. Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev sign a treaty to end chemical weapon production.
June 20 » Asteroid Eureka is discovered.
August 12 » Sue, the largest and most complete Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton found to date, is discovered by Sue Hendrickson in South Dakota.
September 2 » Transnistria is unilaterally proclaimed a Soviet republic; the Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev declares the decision null and void.
November 2 » British Satellite Broadcasting and Sky Television plc merge to form BSkyB as a result of massive losses.
Day of burial April 24, 1990
The temperature on April 24, 1990 was between 8.0 °C and 16.9 °C and averaged 12.2 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain during 0.2 hours. There was 10.6 hours of sunshine (73%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, November 7, 1989 to Monday, August 22, 1994 the cabinet Lubbers III, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
April 4 » The current flag of Hong Kong is adopted for post-colonial Hong Kong during the Third Session of the Seventh National People's Congress.
May 1 » The former Philippine Episcopal Church (supervised by the Episcopal Church of the United States of America) is granted full autonomy and raised to the status of an Autocephalous Anglican Province and renamed the Episcopal Church in the Philippines.
August 6 » Gulf War: The United Nations Security Council orders a global trade embargo against Iraq in response to Iraq's invasion of Kuwait.
August 23 » Saddam Hussein appears on Iraqi state television with a number of Western "guests" (actually hostages) to try to prevent the Gulf War.
November 17 » Fugendake, part of the Mount Unzen volcanic complex, Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan, becomes active again and erupts.
December 22 » Lech Wałęsa is elected President of Poland.
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