The temperature on April 14, 1912 was between 3.3 °C and 9.8 °C and averaged 7.1 °C. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. Source: KNMI
February 12 » The Xuantong Emperor, the last Emperor of China, abdicates.
February 14 » The U.S. Navy commissions its first class of diesel-powered submarines.
March 30 » Sultan Abd al-Hafid signs the Treaty of Fez, making Morocco a French protectorate.
July 8 » Henrique Mitchell de Paiva Couceiro leads an unsuccessful royalist attack against the First Portuguese Republic in Chaves.
August 14 » U.S. Marines invade Nicaragua to support the U.S.-backed government installed there after José Santos Zelaya had resigned three years earlier.
October 14 » Former president Theodore Roosevelt is shot and mildly wounded by John Flammang Schrank. With the fresh wound in his chest, and the bullet still within it, Roosevelt delivers his scheduled speech.
Day of death November 17, 2008
The temperature on November 17, 2008 was between 1.5 °C and 10.9 °C and averaged 6.3 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 0.5 hours. There was 3.5 hours of sunshine (40%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, February 22, 2007 to Thursday, October 14, 2010 the cabinet Balkenende IV, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
March 1 » The Armenian police clash with peaceful opposition rally protesting against allegedly fraudulent presidential elections, as a result ten people are killed.
April 22 » The United States Air Force retires the remaining F-117 Nighthawk aircraft in service.
July 10 » Former Macedonian Interior Minister Ljube Boškoski is acquitted of all war-crimes charges by a United Nations Tribunal.
August 18 » War of Afghanistan: Uzbin Valley ambush occurs.
September 12 » The 2008 Chatsworth train collision in Los Angeles between a Metrolink commuter train and a Union Pacific freight train kills 25 people.
November 4 » Barack Obama becomes the first person of biracial or African-American descent to be elected President of the United States.
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