The temperature on July 14, 1912 was between 17.4 °C and 28.7 °C and averaged 22.9 °C. There was 12.2 hours of sunshine (75%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east. Source: KNMI
January 4 » The Scout Association is incorporated throughout the British Empire by royal charter.
January 6 » New Mexico is admitted to the Union as the 47th U.S. state.
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.
May 5 » Pravda, the "voice" of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, begins publication in Saint Petersburg.
October 8 » The First Balkan War begins when Montenegro declares war against the Ottoman Empire.
November 27 » Spain declares a protectorate over the north shore of Morocco.
Day of marriage September 18, 1935
The temperature on September 18, 1935 was between 10.4 °C and 17.6 °C and averaged 13.2 °C. There was 13.3 mm of rain during 2.1 hours. There was 5.4 hours of sunshine (43%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
February 20 » Caroline Mikkelsen becomes the first woman to set foot in Antarctica.
February 28 » DuPont scientist Wallace Carothers invents nylon.
June 3 » One thousand unemployed Canadian workers board freight cars in Vancouver, beginning a protest trek to Ottawa.
November 22 » The China Clipper inaugurates the first commercial transpacific air service, connecting Alameda, California with Manila.
December 9 » Walter Liggett, American newspaper editor and muckraker, is killed in a gangland murder.
December 27 » Regina Jonas is ordained as the first female rabbi in the history of Judaism.
Day of death May 17, 1987
The temperature on May 17, 1987 was between 2.3 °C and 14.2 °C and averaged 9.3 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain during 0.4 hours. There was 3.5 hours of sunshine (22%). 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 Tuesday, November 4, 1986 to Tuesday, November 7, 1989 the cabinet Lubbers II, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
April 11 » The London Agreement is secretly signed between Israeli Foreign Affairs Minister Shimon Peres and King Hussein of Jordan.
May 9 » LOT Flight 5055 Tadeusz Kościuszko crashes after takeoff in Warsaw, Poland, killing all 183 people on board.
July 1 » The American radio station WFAN in New York City is launched as the world's first all-sports radio station.
August 16 » Northwest Airlines Flight 255, a McDonnell Douglas MD-82, crashes after takeoff in Detroit, Michigan, killing 154 of the 155 on board, plus two people on the ground.
November 29 » North Korean agents plant a bomb on Korean Air Flight 858, which kills all 115 passengers and crew.
December 8 » Cold War: The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty is signed by U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in the White House.
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