The temperature on March 4, 1912 was between 4.9 °C and 10.0 °C and averaged 7.4 °C. There was 7.2 mm of rain. There was 1.6 hours of sunshine (14%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
April 10 » RMS Titanic sets sail from Southampton, England on her maiden and only voyage.
June 4 » Massachusetts becomes the first state of the United States to set a minimum wage.
June 30 » The Regina Cyclone, Canada's deadliest tornado event, kills 28 people in Regina, Saskatchewan.
December 3 » Bulgaria, Greece, Montenegro, and Serbia (the Balkan League) sign an armistice with the Ottoman Empire, temporarily halting the First Balkan War. (The armistice will expire on February 3, 1913, and hostilities will resume.)
December 6 » The Nefertiti Bust is discovered.
December 19 » William Van Schaick, captain of the steamship General Slocum which caught fire and killed over one thousand people, is pardoned by U.S. President William Howard Taft after 3⁄2 years in Sing Sing prison.
Day of death January 28, 1992
The temperature on January 28, 1992 was between -3.8 °C and 3.4 °C and averaged -0.7 °C. There was 5.7 hours of sunshine (64%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, November 7, 1989 to Monday, August 22, 1994 the cabinet Lubbers III, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
February 15 » Serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer is sentenced in Milwaukee to life in prison.
March 12 » Mauritius becomes a republic while remaining a member of the Commonwealth of Nations.
July 10 » In Miami, former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega is sentenced to 40 years in prison for drug and racketeering violations.
July 31 » Thai Airways International Flight 311 crashes into a mountain north of Kathmandu, Nepal killing all 113 people on board.
October 2 » Military police storm the Carandiru Penitentiary in São Paulo, Brazil during a prison riot. The resulting massacre leaves 111 prisoners dead.
December 4 » Somali Civil War: President George H. W. Bush orders 28,000 U.S. troops to Somalia in Northeast Africa.
Day of burial January 31, 1992
The temperature on January 31, 1992 was between -1.4 °C and 0.2 °C and averaged -0.4 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, November 7, 1989 to Monday, August 22, 1994 the cabinet Lubbers III, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
July 18 » A picture of Les Horribles Cernettes was taken, which became the first ever photo posted to the World Wide Web.
September 12 » NASA launches Space Shuttle Endeavour on STS-47 which marked the 50th shuttle mission. On board are Mae Carol Jemison, the first African-American woman in space, Mamoru Mohri, the first Japanese citizen to fly in a US spaceship, and Mark Lee and Jan Davis, the first married couple in space.
October 2 » Military police storm the Carandiru Penitentiary in São Paulo, Brazil during a prison riot. The resulting massacre leaves 111 prisoners dead.
October 4 » El Al Flight 1862 crashes into two apartment buildings in Amsterdam, killing 43 including 39 on the ground.
October 27 » United States Navy radioman Allen R. Schindler, Jr. is murdered by shipmate Terry M. Helvey for being gay, precipitating debate about gays in the military that results in the United States' "Don't ask, don't tell" military policy.
November 21 » A major tornado strikes the Houston, Texas area during the afternoon. Over the next two days the largest tornado outbreak ever to occur in the US during November spawns over 100 tornadoes.
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