The temperature on November 12, 1919 was between -4.8 °C and 2.0 °C and averaged -1.3 °C. There was 0.6 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from September 9, 1918 to September 18, 1922 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck I, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
February 5 » Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and D. W. Griffith launch United Artists.
February 14 » The Polish–Soviet War begins.
March 23 » In Milan, Italy, Benito Mussolini founds his Fascist political movement.
April 16 » Mohandas Gandhi organizes a day of "prayer and fasting" in response to the killing of Indian protesters in the Jallianwala Bagh massacre by the British colonial troops three days earlier.
May 15 » The Winnipeg general strike begins. By 11:00, almost the whole working population of Winnipeg had walked off the job.
June 23 » Estonian War of Independence: The decisive defeat of the Baltische Landeswehr in the Battle of Cēsis; this date is celebrated as Victory Day in Estonia.
Day of death July 15, 1978
The temperature on July 15, 1978 was between 7.4 °C and 15.6 °C and averaged 12.1 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 0.8 hours of sunshine (5%). 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 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 22 » Karl Wallenda of The Flying Wallendas dies after falling off a tight-rope suspended between two hotels in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
April 27 » Former United States President Nixon aide John D. Ehrlichman is released from an Arizona prison after serving 18 months for Watergate-related crimes.
June 26 » Air Canada Flight 189, flying to Toronto, overruns the runway and crashes into the Etobicoke Creek ravine. Two of the 107 passengers on board perish.
September 25 » PSA Flight 182, a Boeing 727, collides in mid-air with a Cessna 172 and crashes in San Diego, killing 144 people.
November 14 » France conducts the Aphrodite nuclear test as 25th in the group of 29, 1975–78 French nuclear tests.
December 10 » Arab–Israeli conflict: Prime Minister of Israel Menachem Begin and President of Egypt Anwar Sadat are jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
Day of burial July 19, 1978
The temperature on July 19, 1978 was between 12.8 °C and 19.5 °C and averaged 15.3 °C. There was 0.8 mm of rain during 0.2 hours. There was 7.1 hours of sunshine (44%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west. 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 24 » The Yuba County Five disappear in California. Four of their bodies are found four months later.
April 14 » Tbilisi Demonstrations: Thousands of Georgians demonstrate against Soviet attempts to change the constitutional status of the Georgian language.
June 1 » The first international applications under the Patent Cooperation Treaty are filed.
September 7 » While walking across Waterloo Bridge in London, Bulgarian dissident Georgi Markov is assassinated by Bulgarian secret police agent Francesco Gullino by means of a ricin pellet fired from a specially-designed umbrella.
November 17 » The Star Wars Holiday Special airs on CBS, receiving negative reception from critics, fans, and even Star Wars creator George Lucas.
December 11 » The Lufthansa heist is committed by a group led by Lucchese family associate Jimmy Burke. It was the largest cash robbery ever committed on American soil, at that time.
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