The temperature on June 7, 1911 was between 11.2 °C and 19.2 °C and averaged 14.9 °C. There was 9.1 hours of sunshine (55%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. Source: KNMI
January 15 » Palestinian Arabic-language Falastin newspaper founded.
April 8 » Dutch physicist Heike Kamerlingh Onnes discovers superconductivity.
May 30 » At the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, the first Indianapolis 500 ends with Ray Harroun in his Marmon Wasp becoming the first winner of the 500-mile auto race.
June 22 » George V and Mary of Teck are crowned King and Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
November 1 » World's first combat aerial bombing mission takes place in Libya during the Italo-Turkish War. Second Lieutenant Giulio Gavotti of Italy drops several small bombs.
December 27 » "Jana Gana Mana", the national anthem of India, is first sung in the Calcutta Session of the Indian National Congress.
Day of death May 12, 1991
The temperature on May 12, 1991 was between 7.0 °C and 14.6 °C and averaged 10.7 °C. There was 8.8 hours of sunshine (57%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. 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.
February 24 » Gulf War: Ground troops cross the Saudi Arabian border and enter Iraq, thus beginning the ground phase of the war.
March 23 » The Revolutionary United Front, with support from the special forces of Charles Taylor's National Patriotic Front of Liberia, invades Sierra Leone in an attempt to overthrow Joseph Saidu Momoh, sparking the 11-year Sierra Leone Civil War.
April 10 » A rare tropical storm develops in the South Atlantic Ocean near Angola; the first to be documented by satellites.
April 26 » 55 tornadoes break out in the central United States. Before the outbreak's end, Andover, Kansas, would record the year's only F5 tornado.
June 15 » In the Philippines, Mount Pinatubo erupts in the second largest volcanic eruption of the 20th century, killing over 800 people.
November 14 » American and British authorities announce indictments against two Libyan intelligence officials in connection with the downing of the Pan Am Flight 103.
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