The temperature on December 9, 1912 was between 0.1 °C and 7.2 °C and averaged 3.1 °C. There was 4.9 hours of sunshine (62%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
March 5 » Italo-Turkish War: Italian forces are the first to use airships for military purposes, employing them for reconnaissance behind Turkish lines.
April 2 » The ill-fated RMSTitanic begins sea trials.
April 18 » The Cunard liner RMSCarpathia brings 705 survivors from the RMSTitanic to New York City.
May 5 » Pravda, the "voice" of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, begins publication in Saint Petersburg.
October 3 » U.S. forces defeat Nicaraguan rebels at the Battle of Coyotepe Hill.
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 death May 17, 2000
The temperature on May 17, 2000 was between 10.5 °C and 16.8 °C and averaged 13.7 °C. There was 1.2 mm of rain during 1.4 hours. There was 5.5 hours of sunshine (35%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
January 14 » A United Nations tribunal sentences five Roman Catholic Bosnian Croats to up to 25 years in prison for the 1993 killing of more than 100 Bosnian Muslims.
July 17 » During approach to Lok Nayak Jayaprakash Airport, Alliance Air Flight 7412 suddenly crashes into a residential neighborhood in Patna, killing 60 people.
August 8 » Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley is raised to the surface after 136 years on the ocean floor and 30 years after its discovery by undersea explorer E. Lee Spence.
October 26 » The Sony PlayStation 2 is launched in North American markets with 27 launch titles.
November 15 » A chartered Antonov An-24 crashes after takeoff from Luanda, Angola, killing more than 40 people.
December 12 » The United States Supreme Court releases its decision in Bush v. Gore.
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