The temperature on October 16, 1912 was between 0.9 °C and 13.6 °C and averaged 7.5 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. There was 4.5 hours of sunshine (42%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
January 17 » British polar explorer Captain Robert Falcon Scott reaches the South Pole, one month after Roald Amundsen.
February 12 » The Xuantong Emperor, the last Emperor of China, abdicates.
February 14 » Arizona is admitted as the 48th and the last contiguous U.S. state.
June 4 » Massachusetts becomes the first state of the United States to set a minimum wage.
September 25 » Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism is founded in New York City.
November 27 » Spain declares a protectorate over the north shore of Morocco.
Day of marriage May 26, 1944
The temperature on May 26, 1944 was between 11.2 °C and 16.5 °C and averaged 13.7 °C. There was 1.3 mm of rain during 1.9 hours. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-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.
April 5 » World War II: Two hundred seventy inhabitants of the Greek town of Kleisoura are executed by the Germans.
April 22 » World War II: Operation Persecution is initiated: Allied forces land in the Hollandia (currently known as Jayapura) area of New Guinea.
September 14 » World War II: Maastricht becomes the first Dutch city to be liberated by allied forces.
October 19 » A coup is launched against Juan Federico Ponce Vaides, beginning the ten-year Guatemalan Revolution.
October 21 » World War II: The first kamikaze attack damages HMASAustralia as the Battle of Leyte Gulf begins.
October 30 » Holocaust: Anne and Margot Frank are deported from Auschwitz to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, where they die from disease the following year, shortly before the end of WWII.
Day of death March 18, 1965
The temperature on March 18, 1965 was between 5.7 °C and 10.0 °C and averaged 7.8 °C. There was 2.5 mm of rain during 4.4 hours. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
March 18 » Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov, leaving his spacecraft Voskhod 2 for 12 minutes, becomes the first person to walk in space.
June 19 » Nguyễn Cao Kỳ becomes Prime Minister of South Vietnam at the head of a military junta; General Nguyễn Văn Thiệu becomes the figurehead chief of state.
September 11 » Indo-Pakistani War: The Indian Army captures the town of Burki, just southeast of Lahore.
September 20 » Following the Battle of Burki, the Indian Army captures Dograi in course of the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965.
December 9 » A Charlie Brown Christmas, first in a series of Peanuts television specials, debuts on CBS.
December 9 » Kecksburg UFO incident: A fireball is seen from Michigan to Pennsylvania; witnesses report something crashing in the woods near Pittsburgh.
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