The temperature on January 8, 1911 was between -0.8 °C and 3.5 °C and averaged 1.6 °C. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
January 30 » The destroyer USSTerry makes the first airplane rescue at sea saving the life of Douglas McCurdy ten miles from Havana, Cuba.
March 29 » The M1911 .45 ACP pistol becomes the official U.S. Army side arm.
July 1 » Germany despatches the gunship SMSPanther to Morocco, sparking the Agadir Crisis.
July 24 » Hiram Bingham III re-discovers Machu Picchu, "the Lost City of the Incas".
November 1 » World's first combat aerial bombing mission takes place in Libya during the Italo-Turkish War. Second Lieutenant Giulio Gavotti of Italy drops several small bombs.
November 11 » Many cities in the Midwestern United States break their record highs and lows on the same day as a strong cold front rolls through.
Day of marriage September 15, 1953
The temperature on September 15, 1953 was between 9.4 °C and 21.0 °C and averaged 14.7 °C. There was 10.5 hours of sunshine (82%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. Source: KNMI
February 3 » The Batepá massacre occurred in São Tomé when the colonial administration and Portuguese landowners unleashed a wave of violence against the native creoles known as forros.
March 5 » Joseph Stalin, the longest serving leader of the Soviet Union, dies at his Volynskoe dacha in Moscow after suffering a cerebral hemorrhage four days earlier.
April 24 » Winston Churchill is knighted by Queen Elizabeth II.
June 18 » The Egyptian revolution of 1952 ends with the overthrow of the Muhammad Ali dynasty and the declaration of the Republic of Egypt.
July 7 » Ernesto "Che" Guevara sets out on a trip through Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, and El Salvador.
December 24 » Tangiwai disaster: In New Zealand's North Island, at Tangiwai, a railway bridge is damaged by a lahar and collapses beneath a passenger train, killing 151 people.
Day of death July 25, 1994
The temperature on July 25, 1994 was between 18.7 °C and 29.0 °C and averaged 23.6 °C. There was 0.8 mm of rain during 1.3 hours. There was 7.1 hours of sunshine (45%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the 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.
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.
January 3 » More than seven million people from the former apartheid Homelands receive South African citizenship.
May 5 » American teenager Michael P. Fay is caned in Singapore for theft and vandalism.
August 14 » Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, also known as "Carlos the Jackal", is captured.
October 12 » The Magellan spacecraft burns up in the atmosphere of Venus.
November 7 » WXYC, the student radio station of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, provides the world's first internet radio broadcast.
December 31 » This date is skipped altogether in Kiribati as the Phoenix Islands and Line Islands change time zones from UTC−11:00 to UTC+13:00 and UTC−10:00 to UTC+14:00, respectively.
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