The temperature on February 15, 1912 was between -0.7 °C and 2.7 °C and averaged 1.1 °C. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east. Source: KNMI
January 6 » German geophysicist Alfred Wegener first presents his theory of continental drift.
February 12 » The Xuantong Emperor, the last Emperor of China, abdicates.
June 8 » Carl Laemmle incorporates Universal Pictures.
August 6 » The Bull Moose Party meets at the Chicago Coliseum.
October 18 » First Balkan War: King Peter I of Serbia issues a declaration "To the Serbian People", as his country joins the war.
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 February 23, 1972
The temperature on February 23, 1972 was between -0.1 °C and 10.2 °C and averaged 4.3 °C. There was 7.8 hours of sunshine (75%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from April 5, 1967 to Tuesday, July 6, 1971 the cabinet Biesheuvel I, with Mr. B.W. Biesheuvel (ARP) as prime minister.
In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, July 20, 1972 to Friday, May 11, 1973 the cabinet Biesheuvel II, with Mr. B.W. Biesheuvel (ARP) as prime minister.
January 10 » Sheikh Mujibur Rahman returns to the newly independent Bangladesh as president after spending over nine months in prison in Pakistan.
March 20 » The Troubles: The first Provisional IRA car bombing in Belfast kills seven people and injures 148 others in Northern Ireland.
May 15 » The Ryukyu Islands, under U.S. military governance since its conquest in 1945, reverts to Japanese control.
May 30 » In Ben Gurion Airport (at the time: Lod Airport), Israel, members of the Japanese Red Army carry out the Lod Airport massacre, killing 24 people and injuring 78 others.
June 20 » Watergate scandal: An 18½-minute gap appears in the tape recording of the conversations between U.S. President Richard Nixon and his advisers regarding the recent arrests of his operatives while breaking into the Watergate complex.
June 29 » The United States Supreme Court rules in the case Furman v. Georgia that arbitrary and inconsistent imposition of the death penalty violates the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments and constitutes cruel and unusual punishment.
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