The temperature on January 1, 1912 was between 5.7 °C and 8.1 °C and averaged 6.9 °C. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
February 12 » The Xuantong Emperor, the last Emperor of China, abdicates.
March 6 » Italo-Turkish War: Italian forces become the first to use airships in war, as two dirigibles drop bombs on Turkish troops encamped at Janzur, from an altitude of 6,000 feet.
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 8 » Paramount Pictures is founded.
October 7 » The Helsinki Stock Exchange sees its first transaction.
October 18 » First Balkan War: King Peter I of Serbia issues a declaration "To the Serbian People", as his country joins the war.
Day of marriage April 9, 1938
The temperature on April 9, 1938 was between 1.5 °C and 9.0 °C and averaged 5.3 °C. There was 1.2 mm of rain during 0.4 hours. There was 6.2 hours of sunshine (46%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north. Source: KNMI
March 18 » Mexico creates Pemex by expropriating all foreign-owned oil reserves and facilities.
July 3 » United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicates the Eternal Light Peace Memorial and lights the eternal flame at Gettysburg Battlefield.
September 23 » The Czechoslovak army is mobilized in response to the Munich Agreement.
September 27 » The ocean liner Queen Elizabeth is launched in Glasgow.
November 14 » The Lions Gate Bridge, connecting Vancouver to the North Shore region, opens to traffic.
December 16 » Adolf Hitler institutes the Cross of Honour of the German Mother.
Day of death August 16, 1983
The temperature on August 16, 1983 was between 12.7 °C and 23.4 °C and averaged 18.6 °C. There was 5.3 hours of sunshine (36%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, November 4, 1982 to Monday, July 14, 1986 the cabinet Lubbers I, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
February 16 » The Ash Wednesday bushfires in Victoria and South Australia kill 75.
February 22 » The notorious Broadway flop Moose Murders opens and closes on the same night at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre.
July 1 » A North Korean Ilyushin Il-62M jet en route to Conakry Airport in Guinea crashes into the Fouta Djallon mountains in Guinea-Bissau, killing all 23 people on board.
December 27 » Pope John Paul II visits Mehmet Ali Ağca in Rebibbia's prison and personally forgives him for the 1981 attack on him in St. Peter's Square.
December 31 » Benjamin Ward is appointed New York City Police Department's first ever African American police commissioner.
December 31 » In Nigeria a coup d'état led by Major General Muhammadu Buhari ends the Second Nigerian Republic.
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