The temperature on April 12, 1912 was between -2 °C and 7.8 °C and averaged 3.1 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. There was 11.1 hours of sunshine (81%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. Source: KNMI
January 4 » The Scout Association is incorporated throughout the British Empire by royal charter.
June 4 » Massachusetts becomes the first state of the United States to set a minimum wage.
June 8 » Carl Laemmle incorporates Universal Pictures.
October 19 » Italo-Turkish War: Italy takes possession of what is now Libya from the Ottoman Empire.
October 24 » First Balkan War: The Battle of Kumanovo concludes with the Serbian victory against the Ottoman Empire.
November 28 » Albania declares its independence from the Ottoman Empire.
Day of marriage November 14, 1945
The temperature on November 14, 1945 was between 0.8 °C and 5.3 °C and averaged 3.5 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from July 27, 1941 to February 23, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy II, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
In The Netherlands , there was from February 23, 1945 to June 24, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy III, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
From June 24, 1945 till July 3, 1946 the Netherlands had a cabinet Schermerhorn - Drees with the prime ministers Prof. ir. W. Schermerhorn (VDB) and W. Drees (PvdA).
February 8 » World War II: Mikhail Devyataev escapes with nine other Soviet inmates from a Nazi concentration camp in Peenemünde on the island of Usedom by hijacking the camp commandant's Heinkel He 111.
March 3 » World War II: The RAF accidentally bombs the Bezuidenhout area of The Hague, Netherlands, killing 511 people.
March 21 » World War II: Operation Carthage: Royal Air Force planes bomb Gestapo headquarters in Copenhagen, Denmark. They also accidentally hit a school, killing 125 civilians.
May 1 » World War II: Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels and his wife Magda commit suicide in the Reich Garden outside the Führerbunker. Their children are also killed by having cyanide pills inserted into their mouths by their mother, Magda.
May 5 » World War II: Battle of Castle Itter, the only battle in which American and German troops fought cooperatively.
October 25 » Fifty years of Japanese administration of Taiwan formally ends when the Republic of China assumes control.
Day of death December 31, 1977
The temperature on December 31, 1977 was between 2.8 °C and 7.0 °C and averaged 4.8 °C. There was 1.6 mm of rain during 1.4 hours. There was 2.7 hours of sunshine (35%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. 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.
In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, December 19, 1977 to Friday, September 11, 1981 the cabinet Van Agt I, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA/KVP) as prime minister.
January 17 » Capital punishment in the United States resumes after a ten-year hiatus, as convicted murderer Gary Gilmore is executed by firing squad in Utah.
March 27 » Tenerife airport disaster: Two Boeing 747 airliners collide on a foggy runway on Tenerife in the Canary Islands, killing 583 (all 248 on KLM and 335 on Pan Am). Sixty-one survived on the Pan Am flight. This is the deadliest aviation accident in history.
May 17 » Nolan Bushnell opened the first Chuck E. Cheese's in San Jose, California.
June 10 » James Earl Ray escapes from Brushy Mountain State Prison in Petros, Tennessee. He is recaptured three days later.
September 27 » Japan Airlines Flight 715 crashes on approach to Sultan Abdul Aziz Shah Airport in Subang, Malaysia, killing 34 of the 79 people on board.
October 14 » Anita Bryant gets a pie thrown in her face at a news conference in Des Moines by gay rights activist Tom Higgins for her anti-LGBT commentary.
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