The temperature on March 19, 1907 was between 3.1 °C and 9.2 °C and averaged 6.5 °C. There was 2.1 mm of rain. There was 8.3 hours of sunshine (69%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from August 17, 1905 to February 11, 1908 the cabinet De Meester, with Mr. Th. de Meester (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
February 5 » Belgian chemist Leo Baekeland announces the creation of Bakelite, the world's first synthetic plastic.
June 22 » The London Underground's Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway opens.
August 1 » The start of the first Scout camp on Brownsea Island, the origin of the worldwide Scouting movement.
August 17 » Pike Place Market, a popular tourist destination and registered historic district in Seattle, opened.
October 22 » A run on the stock of the Knickerbocker Trust Company sets events in motion that will spark the Panic of 1907.
November 9 » The Cullinan Diamond is presented to King Edward VII on his birthday.
Day of marriage May 14, 1937
The temperature on May 14, 1937 was between 8.0 °C and 18.2 °C and averaged 12.4 °C. There was 3.1 mm of rain during 2.6 hours. There was 7.7 hours of sunshine (49%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
January 23 » The trial of the anti-Soviet Trotskyist center sees seventeen mid-level Communists accused of sympathizing with Leon Trotsky and plotting to overthrow Joseph Stalin's regime.
February 16 » Wallace H. Carothers receives a United States patent for nylon.
April 26 » Spanish Civil War: Guernica, Spain, is bombed by German Luftwaffe.
May 28 » Volkswagen, the German automobile manufacturer is founded.
September 10 » Nine nations attend the Nyon Conference to address international piracy in the Mediterranean Sea.
December 16 » Theodore Cole and Ralph Roe attempt to escape from the American federal prison on Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay; neither is ever seen again.
Day of death December 28, 1999
The temperature on December 28, 1999 was between -0.9 °C and 5.9 °C and averaged 1.5 °C. There was 1.0 mm of rain during 0.5 hours. There was 1.3 hours of sunshine (17%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. Source: KNMI
May 7 » Kosovo War: Three Chinese citizens are killed and 20 wounded when a NATO aircraft apparently inadvertently bombs the Chinese embassy in Belgrade, Serbia.
July 23 » ANA Flight 61 is hijacked in Tokyo, Japan by Yuji Nishizawa.
October 12 » Pervez Musharraf takes power in Pakistan from Nawaz Sharif through a bloodless coup.
October 31 » EgyptAir Flight 990 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean near Nantucket, killing all 217 people on board.
October 31 » Yachtsman Jesse Martin returns to Melbourne after 11 months of circumnavigating the world, solo, non-stop and unassisted.
December 31 » The U.S. government hands control of the Panama Canal (as well all the adjacent land to the canal known as the Panama Canal Zone) to Panama. This act complied with the signing of the 1977 Torrijos–Carter Treaties.
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