The temperature on June 5, 1911 was between 11.6 °C and 26.8 °C and averaged 19.5 °C. There was 12.1 hours of sunshine (73%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north. Source: KNMI
March 29 » The M1911 .45 ACP pistol becomes the official U.S. Army side arm.
April 8 » Dutch physicist Heike Kamerlingh Onnes discovers superconductivity.
May 23 » The New York Public Library is dedicated.
May 31 » The RMS Titanic is launched in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
July 4 » A massive heat wave strikes the northeastern United States, killing 380 people in eleven days and breaking temperature records in several cities.
December 29 » Sun Yat-sen becomes the provisional President of the Republic of China; he formally takes office on January 1, 1912.
Day of marriage May 16, 1934
The temperature on May 16, 1934 was between 4.9 °C and 14.1 °C and averaged 9.0 °C. There was 4.3 mm of rain during 4.1 hours. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
April 21 » The "Surgeon's Photograph", the most famous photo allegedly showing the Loch Ness Monster, is published in the Daily Mail (in 1999, it is revealed to be a hoax).
May 23 » Infamous American bank robbers Bonnie and Clyde are ambushed by police and killed in Bienville Parish, Louisiana.
May 28 » Near Callander, Ontario, Canada, the Dionne quintuplets are born to Oliva and Elzire Dionne; they will be the first quintuplets to survive infancy.
June 26 » United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Federal Credit Union Act, which establishes credit unions.
July 5 » "Bloody Thursday": Police open fire on striking longshoremen in San Francisco.
August 11 » The first civilian prisoners arrive at the Federal prison on Alcatraz Island.
Day of death May 8, 1979
The temperature on May 8, 1979 was between 5.6 °C and 16.6 °C and averaged 11.0 °C. There was 11.4 hours of sunshine (75%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, December 19, 1977 to Friday, September 11, 1981 the cabinet Van Agt I, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA/KVP) as prime minister.
January 25 » Pope John Paul II starts his first official papal visits outside Italy to The Bahamas, Dominican Republic, and Mexico.
March 17 » The Penmanshiel Tunnel collapses during engineering works, killing two workers.
July 12 » The island nation of Kiribati becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
July 19 » The oil tanker SS Atlantic Empress collides with another oil tanker, causing the largest ever ship-borne oil spill.
October 21 » Moshe Dayan resigns from the Israeli government because of strong disagreements with Prime Minister Menachem Begin over policy towards the Arabs.
November 17 » Brisbane Suburban Railway Electrification. The first stage from Ferny Grove to Darra is commissioned.
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