The temperature on November 19, 1911 was between 3.2 °C and 7.3 °C and averaged 5.0 °C. There was 7.1 mm of rain. There was 1.1 hours of sunshine (13%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
March 29 » The M1911 .45 ACP pistol becomes the official U.S. Army side arm.
June 16 » IBM founded as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company in Endicott, New York.
August 21 » The Mona Lisa is stolen by Vincenzo Peruggia, a Louvre employee.
September 23 » Pilot Earle Ovington makes the first official airmail delivery in America under the authority of the United States Post Office Department
October 5 » The Kowloon–Canton Railway commences service.
December 29 » Sun Yat-sen becomes the provisional President of the Republic of China; he formally takes office on January 1, 1912.
Day of death June 11, 1979
The temperature on June 11, 1979 was between 10.1 °C and 18.6 °C and averaged 13.5 °C. There was 5.5 mm of rain during 5.7 hours. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-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.
March 30 » Airey Neave, a British Member of Parliament, is killed by a car bomb as he exits the Palace of Westminster. The Irish National Liberation Army claims responsibility.
June 18 » SALT II is signed by the United States and the Soviet Union.
August 27 » The Troubles: Eighteen British soldiers are killed in an ambush by the Provisional Irish Republican Army near Warrenpoint, Northern Ireland, in the deadliest attack on British forces during Operation Banner. An IRA bomb also kills British royal family member Lord Mountbatten and three others on his boat at Mullaghmore, Republic of Ireland.
November 4 » Iran hostage crisis: A group of Iranian college students overruns the U.S. embassy in Tehran and takes 90 hostages.
November 16 » The first line of Bucharest Metro (Line M1) is opened from Timpuri Noi to Semănătoarea in Bucharest, Romania.
November 19 » Iran hostage crisis: Iranian leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini orders the release of 13 female and black American hostages being held at the US Embassy in Tehran.
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