The temperature on May 8, 1911 was between 5.0 °C and 18.1 °C and averaged 12.6 °C. There was 13.6 hours of sunshine (89%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
May 31 » The RMS Titanic is launched in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
August 21 » The Mona Lisa is stolen by Vincenzo Peruggia, a Louvre employee.
August 24 » Manuel de Arriaga is elected and sworn-in as the first President of Portugal.
September 29 » Italy declares war on the Ottoman Empire.
October 13 » Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, becomes the first Governor General of Canada of royal descent.
November 5 » After declaring war on the Ottoman Empire on September 29, 1911, Italy annexes Tripoli and Cyrenaica.
Day of death May 12, 1946
The temperature on May 12, 1946 was between 5.2 °C and 22.0 °C and averaged 14.0 °C. There was 5.7 hours of sunshine (37%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
From June 24, 1945 till July 3, 1946 the Netherlands had a cabinet Schermerhorn - Drees with the prime ministers Prof. ir. W. Schermerhorn (VDB) and W. Drees (PvdA).
In The Netherlands , there was from July 3, 1946 to August 7, 1948 the cabinet Beel I, with Dr. L.J.M. Beel (KVP) as prime minister.
January 3 » Popular Canadian American jockey George Woolf dies in a freak accident during a race; the annual George Woolf Memorial Jockey Award is created to honor him.
March 2 » Ho Chi Minh is elected the President of North Vietnam.
May 1 » Start of three-year Pilbara strike of Indigenous Australians.
July 1 » Crossroads Able is the first postwar nuclear weapon test.
October 16 » Nuremberg trials: Ten defendants found guilty by the International Military Tribunal are executed by hanging.
December 25 » The first European self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction is initiated within the Soviet Union's F-1 nuclear reactor.
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