The temperature on May 18, 1912 was between 4.5 °C and 16.8 °C and averaged 11.3 °C. There was 7.0 hours of sunshine (44%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
January 17 » British polar explorer Captain Robert Falcon Scott reaches the South Pole, one month after Roald Amundsen.
February 29 » The Piedra Movediza (Moving Stone) of Tandil falls and breaks.
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.
April 20 » Opening day for baseball's Tiger Stadium in Detroit, and Fenway Park in Boston.
July 8 » Henrique Mitchell de Paiva Couceiro leads an unsuccessful royalist attack against the First Portuguese Republic in Chaves.
September 2 » Arthur Rose Eldred is awarded the first Eagle Scout award of the Boy Scouts of America.
Day of death February 22, 1976
The temperature on February 22, 1976 was between 4.0 °C and 12.1 °C and averaged 7.1 °C. There was 5.5 hours of sunshine (53%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Friday, May 11, 1973 to Monday, December 19, 1977 the cabinet Den Uyl, with Drs. J.M. den Uyl (PvdA) as prime minister.
March 9 » Forty-two people die in the Cavalese cable car disaster, the worst cable-car accident to date.
April 2 » Prince Norodom Sihanouk resigns as leader of Cambodia and is placed under house arrest.
May 15 » Aeroflot Flight 1802 crashes in Viktorovka, Chernihiv Raion, killing all 52 people on board.
July 28 » The Tangshan earthquake measuring between 7.8 and 8.2 moment magnitude flattens Tangshan in the People's Republic of China, killing 242,769 and injuring 164,851.
October 20 » The ferry George Prince is struck by a ship while crossing the Mississippi River. Seventy-eight passengers and crew die, and only 18 people aboard the ferry survive.
December 2 » Fidel Castro becomes President of Cuba, replacing Osvaldo Dorticós Torrado.
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