The temperature on March 18, 1912 was between 4.7 °C and 10.7 °C and averaged 7.3 °C. There was 4.4 mm of rain. There was 2.8 hours of sunshine (23%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. Source: KNMI
February 12 » The Xuantong Emperor, the last Emperor of China, abdicates.
May 5 » Pravda, the "voice" of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, begins publication in Saint Petersburg.
October 26 » First Balkan War: The Ottomans lose the cities of Thessaloniki and Skopje.
November 12 » King George I of Greece makes a triumphal entry into Thessaloniki after its liberation from 482 years of Ottoman rule.
November 27 » Spain declares a protectorate over the north shore of Morocco.
December 3 » Bulgaria, Greece, Montenegro, and Serbia (the Balkan League) sign an armistice with the Ottoman Empire, temporarily halting the First Balkan War. (The armistice will expire on February 3, 1913, and hostilities will resume.)
Day of death January 20, 1979
The temperature on January 20, 1979 was between -4.6 °C and -0.1 °C and averaged -2.3 °C. There was 8.8 mm of rain during 7.4 hours. The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, December 19, 1977 to Friday, September 11, 1981 the cabinet Van Agt I, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA/KVP) as prime minister.
February 7 » Pluto moves inside Neptune's orbit for the first time since either was discovered.
April 4 » Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto of Pakistan is executed.
June 2 » Pope John Paul II starts his first official visit to his native Poland, becoming the first Pope to visit a Communist country.
July 1 » Sony introduces the Walkman.
November 10 » A 106-car Canadian Pacific freight train carrying explosive and poisonous chemicals from Windsor, Ontario, Canada derails in Mississauga, Ontario, just west of Toronto, causing a massive explosion and the largest peacetime evacuation in Canadian history and one of the largest in North American history.
December 27 » The Soviet Union invades the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan.
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