The temperature on July 14, 1912 was between 17.4 °C and 28.7 °C and averaged 22.9 °C. There was 12.2 hours of sunshine (75%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east. Source: KNMI
January 11 » Immigrant textile workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts, go on strike when wages are reduced in response to a mandated shortening of the work week.
April 2 » The ill-fated RMSTitanic begins sea trials.
July 8 » Henrique Mitchell de Paiva Couceiro leads an unsuccessful royalist attack against the First Portuguese Republic in Chaves.
October 18 » First Balkan War: King Peter I of Serbia issues a declaration "To the Serbian People", as his country joins the war.
November 2 » Bulgaria defeats the Ottoman Empire in the Battle of Lule Burgas, the bloodiest battle of the First Balkan War, which opens her way to Constantinople.
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.)
Day of marriage May 23, 1935
The temperature on May 23, 1935 was between 9.6 °C and 15.8 °C and averaged 13.1 °C. There was 2.6 hours of sunshine (16%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. Source: KNMI
January 11 » Amelia Earhart becomes the first person to fly solo from Hawaii to California.
May 31 » A 7.7 Mw earthquake destroys Quetta in modern-day Pakistan killing 40,000.
July 20 » Switzerland: A Royal Dutch Airlines plane en route from Milan to Frankfurt crashes into a Swiss mountain, killing thirteen.
December 9 » Student protests in Beiping (now Beijing)'s Tiananmen Square, dispersed by government.
December 9 » The Downtown Athletic Club Trophy, later renamed the Heisman Trophy, is awarded for the first time. The winner is halfback Jay Berwanger of the University of Chicago.
December 12 » Lebensborn Project, a Nazi reproduction program, is founded by Heinrich Himmler.
Day of death February 19, 1997
The temperature on February 19, 1997 was between 2.5 °C and 9.6 °C and averaged 5.8 °C. There was 3.2 mm of rain during 2.7 hours. There was 2.9 hours of sunshine (28%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
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March 18 » The tail of a Russian Antonov An-24 charter plane breaks off while en route to Turkey causing the plane to crash and killing all 50 people on board.
March 22 » Tara Lipinski, aged 14 years and nine months, becomes the youngest women's World Figure Skating Champion.
May 6 » The Bank of England is given independence from political control, the most significant change in the bank's 300-year history.
May 10 » The 7.3 Mw Qayen earthquake strikes Iran's Khorasan Province killing 1,567 people.
August 6 » Korean Air Flight 801 crashed at Nimitz Hill, Guam killing 229 of 254 people on board.
August 20 » Souhane massacre in Algeria; over 60 people are killed and 15 kidnapped.
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