The temperature on March 28, 1912 was between 7.6 °C and 11.6 °C and averaged 9.3 °C. There was 4.2 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
January 6 » German geophysicist Alfred Wegener first presents his theory of continental drift.
February 14 » The U.S. Navy commissions its first class of diesel-powered submarines.
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.
September 28 » The Ulster Covenant is signed by some 500,000 Ulster Protestant Unionists in opposition to the Third Irish Home Rule Bill.
October 3 » U.S. forces defeat Nicaraguan rebels at the Battle of Coyotepe Hill.
November 19 » First Balkan War: The Serbian Army captures Bitola, ending the five-century-long Ottoman rule of Macedonia.
Day of marriage April 8, 1969
The temperature on April 8, 1969 was between 7.3 °C and 22.6 °C and averaged 14.2 °C. There was 10.8 hours of sunshine (81%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. Source: KNMI
January 19 » Student Jan Palach dies after setting himself on fire three days earlier in Prague's Wenceslas Square to protest about the invasion of Czechoslovakia by the Soviet Union in 1968. His funeral turns into another major protest.
March 13 » Apollo 9 returns safely to Earth after testing the Lunar Module.
April 17 » Communist Party of Czechoslovakia chairman Alexander Dubček is deposed.
November 19 » Association football player Pelé scores his 1,000th goal.
November 21 » The first permanent ARPANET link is established between UCLA and SRI.
December 1 » Vietnam War: The first draft lottery in the United States is held since World War II.
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