The temperature on February 29, 1912 was between 6.1 °C and 11.8 °C and averaged 8.5 °C. There was 2.3 mm of rain. There was 0.6 hours of sunshine (6%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
January 6 » New Mexico is admitted to the Union as the 47th U.S. state.
January 8 » The African National Congress is founded, under the name South African Native National Congress (SANNC).
October 18 » First Balkan War: King Peter I of Serbia issues a declaration "To the Serbian People", as his country joins the war.
October 19 » Italo-Turkish War: Italy takes possession of what is now Libya from the Ottoman Empire.
October 26 » First Balkan War: The Ottomans lose the cities of Thessaloniki and Skopje.
November 28 » Albania declares its independence from the Ottoman Empire.
Day of marriage May 12, 1949
The temperature on May 12, 1949 was between 4.1 °C and 16.5 °C and averaged 10.6 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 11.1 hours of sunshine (72%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. Source: KNMI
From August 7, 1948 till March 15, 1951 the Netherlands had a cabinet Drees - Van Schaik with the prime ministers Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) and Mr. J.R.H. van Schaik (KVP).
March 31 » The Dominion of Newfoundland joins the Canadian Confederation and becomes the 10th Province of Canada.
June 5 » Thailand elects Orapin Chaiyakan, the first female member of Thailand's Parliament.
June 24 » The first television western, Hopalong Cassidy, starring William Boyd, is aired on NBC.
August 5 » In Ecuador, an earthquake destroys 50 towns and kills more than 6,000.
October 16 » The Greek Communist Party announces a "temporary cease-fire", thus ending the Greek Civil War.
November 2 » The Dutch–Indonesian Round Table Conference ends with the Netherlands agreeing to transfer sovereignty of the Dutch East Indies to the United States of Indonesia.
Day of death April 6, 1996
The temperature on April 6, 1996 was between 2.3 °C and 11.3 °C and averaged 6.7 °C. There was 1.4 hours of sunshine (11%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east. Source: KNMI
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 8 » An Antonov An-32 cargo aircraft crashes into a crowded market in Kinshasa, Zaire, killing up to 223 on the ground; two of six crew members are also killed.
February 9 » The Provisional Irish Republican Army declares the end to its 18-month ceasefire and explodes a large bomb in London's Canary Wharf, killing two people.
February 10 » IBM supercomputer Deep Blue defeats Garry Kasparov in chess for the first time.
July 5 » Dolly the sheep becomes the first mammal cloned from an adult cell.
July 15 » A Belgian Air Force C-130 Hercules carrying the Royal Netherlands Army marching band crashes on landing at Eindhoven Airport.
December 30 » Proposed budget cuts by Benjamin Netanyahu spark protests from 250,000 workers who shut down services across Israel.
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