The temperature on September 26, 1912 was between 1.1 °C and 13.7 °C and averaged 7.3 °C. There was 6.7 hours of sunshine (56%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. Source: KNMI
March 12 » The Girl Guides (later renamed the Girl Scouts of the USA) are founded in the United States.
April 14 » The British passenger liner RMSTitanic hits an iceberg in the North Atlantic at 23:40 (sinks morning of April 15th).
April 16 » Harriet Quimby becomes the first woman to fly an airplane across the English Channel.
September 2 » Arthur Rose Eldred is awarded the first Eagle Scout award of the Boy Scouts of America.
November 12 » The frozen bodies of Robert Scott and his men are found on the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica.
December 6 » The Nefertiti Bust is discovered.
Day of marriage October 17, 1947
The temperature on October 17, 1947 was between 4.4 °C and 13.3 °C and averaged 9.1 °C. There was 2.4 mm of rain during 1.2 hours. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest. Source: KNMI
April 16 » Bernard Baruch first applies the term "Cold War" to describe the relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union.
April 28 » Thor Heyerdahl and five crew mates set out from Peru on the Kon-Tiki to demonstrate that Peruvian natives could have settled Polynesia.
July 6 » Referendum held in Sylhet to decide its fate in the Partition of India.
October 14 » Chuck Yeager becomes the first person to exceed the speed of sound.
October 22 » The Kashmir conflict between India and Pakistan begins, having started just after the partition of India.
November 25 » New Zealand ratifies the Statute of Westminster and thus becomes independent of legislative control by the United Kingdom.
Day of death October 28, 1962
The temperature on October 28, 1962 was between 5.5 °C and 11.6 °C and averaged 7.8 °C. There was 6.2 mm of rain during 2.5 hours. There was 6.2 hours of sunshine (63%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
February 10 » Roy Lichtenstein's first solo exhibition opened, and it included Look Mickey, which featured his first employment of Ben-Day dots, speech balloons and comic imagery sourcing, all of which he is now known for.
May 27 » The Centralia mine fire is ignited in the town's landfill above a coal mine.
June 3 » At Paris Orly Airport, Air France Flight 007 overruns the runway and explodes when the crew attempts to abort takeoff, killing 130.
July 1 » Independence of Rwanda and Burundi.
August 15 » James Joseph Dresnok defects to North Korea after running across the Korean Demilitarized Zone. Dresnok died in 2016.
December 13 » NASA launches Relay 1, the first active repeater communications satellite in orbit.
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