The temperature on September 13, 1912 was between 5.3 °C and 16.5 °C and averaged 10.9 °C. There was 3.1 hours of sunshine (24%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. Source: KNMI
January 17 » British polar explorer Captain Robert Falcon Scott reaches the South Pole, one month after Roald Amundsen.
April 14 » The British passenger liner RMSTitanic hits an iceberg in the North Atlantic at 23:40 (sinks morning of April 15th).
April 15 » The British passenger liner RMSTitanic sinks in the North Atlantic at 2:20a.m., two hours and forty minutes after hitting an iceberg. Only 710 of 2,227 passengers and crew on board survive.
September 25 » Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism is founded in New York City.
September 28 » The Ulster Covenant is signed by some 500,000 Ulster Protestant Unionists in opposition to the Third Irish Home Rule Bill.
October 26 » First Balkan War: The Ottomans lose the cities of Thessaloniki and Skopje.
Day of marriage May 10, 1943
The temperature on May 10, 1943 was between 4.6 °C and 14.1 °C and averaged 10.2 °C. There was 3.4 mm of rain during 4.3 hours. There was 3.9 hours of sunshine (25%). The average windspeed was 6 Bft (strong wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from July 27, 1941 to February 23, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy II, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
February 23 » Greek Resistance: The United Panhellenic Organization of Youth is founded in Greece.
June 25 » The left-wing German Jewish exile Arthur Goldstein is murdered in Auschwitz.
July 5 » World War II: An Allied invasion fleet sails for Sicily (Operation Husky, July 10, 1943).
August 28 » Denmark in World War II: German authorities demand that Danish authorities crack down on acts of resistance. The next day, martial law is imposed on Denmark.
October 1 » World War II: After the Four Days of Naples, Allied troops enter the city.
December 4 » World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt closes down the Works Progress Administration, because of the high levels of wartime employment in the United States.
Day of death February 4, 1968
The temperature on February 4, 1968 was between -2.1 °C and 4.5 °C and averaged 0.5 °C. There was 4.6 hours of sunshine (50%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
January 21 » Vietnam War: Battle of Khe Sanh: One of the most publicized and controversial battles of the war begins.
January 31 » Vietnam War: Viet Cong guerrillas attack the United States embassy in Saigon, and other attacks, in the early morning hours, later grouped together as the Tet Offensive.
May 25 » The Gateway Arch in St. Louis, Missouri, is dedicated.
July 23 » The only successful hijacking of an El Al aircraft takes place when a Boeing 707 carrying ten crew and 38 passengers is taken over by three members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. The aircraft was en route from Rome, to Lod, Israel.
October 5 » A Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association march in Derry is violently suppressed by police.
November 26 » Vietnam War: United States Air Force helicopter pilot James P. Fleming rescues an Army Special Forces unit pinned down by Viet Cong fire. He is later awarded the Medal of Honor.
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