The temperature on November 30, 1968 was between 5.5 °C and 6.6 °C and averaged 6.0 °C. There was 0.6 mm of rain during 2.4 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. Source: KNMI
February 8 » American civil rights movement: The Orangeburg massacre: An attack on black students from South Carolina State University who are protesting racial segregation at the town's only bowling alley, leaves three or four dead in Orangeburg, South Carolina.
March 16 » Vietnam War: My Lai Massacre occurs; between 347 and 500 Vietnamese villagers (men, women, and children) are killed by American troops.
May 12 » Vietnam War: North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces attack Australian troops defending Fire Support Base Coral.
August 21 » Cold War: Nicolae Ceaușescu, leader of Communist Romania, publicly condemns the Soviet-led Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia, encouraging the Romanian population to arm itself against possible Soviet reprisals.
September 6 » Swaziland becomes independent.
November 8 » The Vienna Convention on Road Traffic is signed to facilitate international road traffic and to increase road safety by standardising the uniform traffic rules among the signatories.
Day of marriage December 14, 1991
The temperature on December 14, 1991 was between -2.8 °C and 6.2 °C and averaged 0.5 °C. There was 6.8 hours of sunshine (87%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. 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.
January 29 » Gulf War: The Battle of Khafji, the first major ground engagement of the war, as well as its deadliest, begins.
April 2 » Rita Johnston becomes the first female Premier of a Canadian province when she succeeds William Vander Zalm (who had resigned) as Premier of British Columbia.
April 5 » An ASA EMB 120 crashes in Brunswick, Georgia, killing all 23 aboard including Sen. John Tower and astronaut Sonny Carter.
April 14 » The Republic of Georgia introduces the post of President after its declaration of independence from the Soviet Union.
September 17 » The first version of the Linux kernel (0.01) is released to the Internet.
October 3 » Nadine Gordimer is announced as the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Day of death January 1, 1997
The temperature on January 1, 1997 was between -13.7 °C and -7.3 °C and averaged -11.4 °C. There was 6.6 hours of sunshine (84%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, August 22, 1994 to Monday, August 3, 1998 the cabinet a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabinet-Kok_I" class="extern">Kok I, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
July 19 » The Troubles: The Provisional Irish Republican Army resumes a ceasefire to end their 25-year paramilitary campaign to end British rule in Northern Ireland.
July 20 » The fully restored USSConstitution (a.k.a. Old Ironsides) celebrates its 200th birthday by setting sail for the first time in 116 years.
September 7 » Maiden flight of the Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor.
October 4 » The second largest cash robbery in U.S. history occurs in North Carolina
October 10 » Austral Líneas Aéreas Flight 2553 crashes and explodes in Uruguay, killing 74.
December 6 » A Russian Antonov An-124 Ruslan cargo plane crashes into an apartment complex near Irkutsk, Siberia, killing 67.
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