The temperature on October 8, 1911 was between 7.9 °C and 16.9 °C and averaged 12.2 °C. There was 4.5 mm of rain. There was 4.0 hours of sunshine (36%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. Source: KNMI
January 18 » Eugene B. Ely lands on the deck of the USSPennsylvania anchored in San Francisco Bay, the first time an aircraft landed on a ship.
April 8 » Dutch physicist Heike Kamerlingh Onnes discovers superconductivity.
May 19 » Parks Canada, the world's first national park service, is established as the Dominion Parks Branch under the Department of the Interior.
May 30 » At the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, the first Indianapolis 500 ends with Ray Harroun in his Marmon Wasp becoming the first winner of the 500-mile auto race.
June 16 » IBM founded as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company in Endicott, New York.
October 13 » Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, becomes the first Governor General of Canada of royal descent.
Day of death August 25, 1991
The temperature on August 25, 1991 was between 10.0 °C and 24.1 °C and averaged 17.3 °C. There was 4.1 hours of sunshine (29%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest. 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 13 » Gulf War: Two laser-guided "smart bombs" destroy the Amiriyah shelter in Baghdad. Allied forces said the bunker was being used as a military communications outpost, but over 400 Iraqi civilians inside were killed.
February 16 » Nicaraguan Contras leader Enrique Bermúdez is assassinated in Managua.
March 31 » Georgian independence referendum: Nearly 99 percent of the voters support the country's independence from the Soviet Union.
August 22 » Iceland is the first nation in the world to recognize the independence of the Baltic states.
September 6 » The Soviet Union recognizes the independence of the Baltic states Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.
October 15 » The "Oh-My-God particle", an ultra-high-energy cosmic ray measured at 40,000,000 times that of the highest energy protons produced in a particle accelerator is observed at the University of Utah HiRes observatory in Dugway Proving Ground, Utah.
Day of burial August 29, 1991
The temperature on August 29, 1991 was between 9.0 °C and 23.3 °C and averaged 16.4 °C. There was 12.5 hours of sunshine (90%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the 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.
January 5 » Somali Civil War: The United States Embassy to Somalia in Mogadishu is evacuated by helicopter airlift days after the outbreak of violence in Mogadishu.
April 10 » A rare tropical storm develops in the South Atlantic Ocean near Angola; the first to be documented by satellites.
June 7 » Mount Pinatubo erupts, generating an ash column 7 kilometres (4.3mi) high.
November 14 » American and British authorities announce indictments against two Libyan intelligence officials in connection with the downing of the Pan Am Flight 103.
November 18 » After an 87-day siege, the Croatian city of Vukovar capitulates to the besieging Yugoslav People's Army and allied Serb paramilitary forces.
December 26 » The Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union meets and formally dissolves the Soviet Union, ending the Cold War.
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