The temperature on February 8, 1912 was between 5.1 °C and 9.9 °C and averaged 7.2 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain. There was 0.9 hours of sunshine (9%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the south east. Source: KNMI
February 14 » Arizona is admitted as the 48th and the last contiguous U.S. state.
March 30 » Sultan Abd al-Hafid signs the Treaty of Fez, making Morocco a French protectorate.
April 15 » The British passenger liner RMSTitanic sinks in the North Atlantic at 2:20a.m., two hours and forty minutes after hitting an iceberg. Only 710 of 2,227 passengers and crew on board survive.
September 2 » Arthur Rose Eldred is awarded the first Eagle Scout award of the Boy Scouts of America.
September 4 » Albanian rebels succeed in their revolt when the Ottoman Empire agrees to fulfill their demands
December 16 » First Balkan War: The Royal Hellenic Navy defeats the Ottoman Navy at the Battle of Elli.
Day of marriage May 17, 1937
The temperature on May 17, 1937 was between 5.2 °C and 14.0 °C and averaged 11.2 °C. There was 0.6 hours of sunshine (4%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. Source: KNMI
May 26 » Walter Reuther and members of the United Auto Workers (UAW) clashed with Ford Motor Company security guards at the River Rouge Complex complex in Dearborn, Michigan, during the Battle of the Overpass.
June 3 » The Duke of Windsor marries Wallis Simpson.
August 28 » Toyota Motors becomes an independent company.
September 5 » Spanish Civil War: Llanes falls to the Nationalists following a one-day siege.
October 2 » Rafael Trujillo orders the execution of Haitians living in the northwestern region of the Dominican Republic.
Day of death May 7, 1979
The temperature on May 7, 1979 was between -0.8 °C and 12.7 °C and averaged 7.7 °C. There was 7.3 hours of sunshine (48%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. 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.
March 5 » Soviet probes Venera 11, Venera 12 and the German-American solar satellite Helios II all are hit by "off the scale" gamma rays leading to the discovery of soft gamma repeaters.
March 17 » The Penmanshiel Tunnel collapses during engineering works, killing two workers.
May 21 » White Night riots in San Francisco following the manslaughter conviction of Dan White for the assassinations of George Moscone and Harvey Milk.
June 12 » Bryan Allen wins the second Kremer prize for a man powered flight across the English Channel in the Gossamer Albatross.
October 15 » Supporters of the Malta Labour Party ransack and destroy the Times of Malta building and other locations associated with the Nationalist Party.
November 15 » A package from Unabomber Ted Kaczynski begins smoking in the cargo hold of a flight from Chicago to Washington, D.C., forcing the plane to make an emergency landing.
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