The temperature on November 16, 1912 was between 5.7 °C and 8.6 °C and averaged 7.3 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. Source: KNMI
January 8 » The African National Congress is founded, under the name South African Native National Congress (SANNC).
January 23 » The International Opium Convention is signed at The Hague.
May 4 » Italy occupies the Greek island of Rhodes.
June 30 » The Regina Cyclone, Canada's deadliest tornado event, kills 28 people in Regina, Saskatchewan.
September 2 » Arthur Rose Eldred is awarded the first Eagle Scout award of the Boy Scouts of America.
October 24 » First Balkan War: The Battle of Kumanovo concludes with the Serbian victory against the Ottoman Empire.
Day of death December 5, 1999
The temperature on December 5, 1999 was between -0.9 °C and 7.9 °C and averaged 3.2 °C. There was 1.1 mm of rain during 1.1 hours. There was 5.1 hours of sunshine (64%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
January 3 » The Mars Polar Lander is launched by NASA.
March 11 » Infosys becomes the first Indian company listed on the NASDAQ stock exchange.
May 24 » The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague, Netherlands indicts Slobodan Milošević and four others for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Kosovo.
July 9 » Days of student protests begin after Iranian police and hardliners attack a student dormitory at the University of Tehran.
July 31 » Discovery Program: Lunar Prospector: NASA intentionally crashes the spacecraft into the Moon, thus ending its mission to detect frozen water on the Moon's surface.
October 29 » A large cyclone devastates Odisha, India.
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