The temperature on July 6, 1912 was between 11.0 °C and 23.3 °C and averaged 18.1 °C. There was 10.6 hours of sunshine (64%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east. Source: KNMI
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 28 » Corporal Frank S. Scott of the United States Army becomes the first enlisted man to die in an airplane crash.
November 5 » Woodrow Wilson is elected the 28th President of the United States, defeating incumbent William Howard Taft.
December 3 » Bulgaria, Greece, Montenegro, and Serbia (the Balkan League) sign an armistice with the Ottoman Empire, temporarily halting the First Balkan War. (The armistice will expire on February 3, 1913, and hostilities will resume.)
December 6 » The Nefertiti Bust is discovered.
December 28 » The first municipally owned streetcars take to the streets in San Francisco.
Day of marriage May 24, 1940
The temperature on May 24, 1940 was between 9.7 °C and 19.4 °C and averaged 14.6 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain during 0.5 hours. There was 9.4 hours of sunshine (58%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from August 10, 1939 to September 3, 1940 the cabinet De Geer II, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
In The Netherlands , there was from September 3, 1940 to July 27, 1941 the cabinet Gerbrandy I, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
April 14 » World War II: Royal Marines land in Namsos, Norway in preparation for a larger force to arrive two days later.
May 28 » World War II: Norwegian, French, Polish and British forces recapture Narvik in Norway. This is the first allied infantry victory of the War.
June 3 » World War II: The Luftwaffe bombs Paris.
September 17 » World War II: Due to setbacks in the Battle of Britain and approaching autumn weather, Hitler postpones Operation Sea Lion.
October 25 » Benjamin O. Davis Sr. is named the first African American general in the United States Army.
November 25 » World War II: First flights of both the de Havilland Mosquito and Martin B-26 Marauder.
Day of death December 19, 2003
The temperature on December 19, 2003 was between -0.9 °C and 5.8 °C and averaged 3.3 °C. The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, July 22, 2002 to Tuesday, May 27, 2003 the cabinet Balkenende I, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, May 27, 2003 to Friday, July 7, 2006 the cabinet Balkenende II, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
January 11 » Illinois Governor George Ryan commutes the death sentences of 167 prisoners on Illinois's death row based on the Jon Burge scandal.
July 15 » AOL Time Warner disbands Netscape. The Mozilla Foundation is established on the same day.
July 22 » Members of 101st Airborne of the United States, aided by Special Forces, attack a compound in Iraq, killing Saddam Hussein's sons Uday and Qusay, along with Mustapha Hussein, Qusay's 14-year-old son, and a bodyguard.
August 5 » A car bomb explodes in the Indonesian capital of Jakarta outside the Marriott Hotel killing 12 and injuring 150.
September 21 » The Galileo spacecraft is terminated by sending it into Jupiter's atmosphere.
November 15 » The first day of the 2003 Istanbul bombings, in which two car bombs, targeting two synagogues, explode, killing 25 people and wounding about 300.
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