The temperature on May 20, 1912 was between 10.1 °C and 19.0 °C and averaged 14.0 °C. There was 5.8 mm of rain. There was 3.3 hours of sunshine (21%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. Source: KNMI
February 14 » Arizona is admitted as the 48th and the last contiguous U.S. state.
February 14 » The U.S. Navy commissions its first class of diesel-powered submarines.
May 8 » Paramount Pictures is founded.
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.
November 19 » First Balkan War: The Serbian Army captures Bitola, ending the five-century-long Ottoman rule of Macedonia.
Day of death May 11, 1978
The temperature on May 11, 1978 was between 2.6 °C and 12.2 °C and averaged 7.8 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 11.0 hours of sunshine (71%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast. 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.
January 2 » On the orders of the President of Pakistan, Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, paramilitary forces opened fire on peaceful protesting workers in Multan, Pakistan; it is known as 1978 massacre at Multan Colony Textile Mills.
August 7 » U.S. President Jimmy Carter declares a federal emergency at Love Canal due to toxic waste that had been disposed of negligently.
August 22 » The Sandinista National Liberation Front (FLSN) occupies national palace in Nicaragua.
August 26 » Papal conclave: Albino Luciani is elected as Pope John Paul I.
October 1 » Tuvalu gains independence from the United Kingdom.
October 16 » Pope John Paul II becomes the first non-Italian pontiff since 1523.
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