The temperature on October 1, 1904 was between 8.4 °C and 15.0 °C and averaged 11.6 °C. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
January 7 » The distress signal "CQD" is established only to be replaced two years later by "SOS".
February 8 » Aceh War: Dutch Colonial Army's Marechaussee regiment led by General G.C.E. van Daalen launch military campaign to capture Gayo Highland, Alas Highland, and Batak Highland in Dutch East Indies' Northern Sumatra region, which ends with genocide to Acehnese and Bataks people.
April 8 » Longacre Square in Midtown Manhattan is renamed Times Square after The New York Times.
April 8 » The French Third Republic and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland sign the Entente cordiale.
June 16 » Eugen Schauman assassinates Nikolay Bobrikov, Governor-General of Finland.
November 16 » English engineer John Ambrose Fleming receives a patent for the thermionic valve (vacuum tube).
Day of death November 18, 1982
The temperature on November 18, 1982 was between 7.2 °C and 12.3 °C and averaged 10.3 °C. There was 7.4 mm of rain during 5.7 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Friday, September 11, 1981 to Saturday, May 29, 1982 the cabinet Van Agt II, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA) as prime minister.
In The Netherlands , there was from Saturday, May 29, 1982 to Thursday, November 4, 1982 the cabinet Van Agt III, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA) as prime minister.
In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, November 4, 1982 to Monday, July 14, 1986 the cabinet Lubbers I, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
March 23 » Guatemala's government, headed by Fernando Romeo Lucas García is overthrown in a military coup by right-wing General Efraín Ríos Montt.
April 25 » Israel completes its withdrawal from the Sinai Peninsula per the Camp David Accords.
June 13 » Battles of Tumbledown and Wireless Ridge, during the Falklands War.
June 27 » Space Shuttle Columbia launched from the Kennedy Space Center on the final research and development flight mission, STS-4.
September 11 » The international forces that were guaranteeing the safety of Palestinian refugees following Israel's 1982 Invasion of Lebanon leave Beirut. Five days later, several thousand refugees are massacred in the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps by Phalange forces.
November 30 » Michael Jackson's sixth solo studio album, Thriller, is released worldwide, ultimately to become the best-selling record album in history.
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