The temperature on November 5, 1912 was between 4.2 °C and 7.9 °C and averaged 5.9 °C. There was 1.2 mm of rain. There was 2.4 hours of sunshine (26%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
January 8 » The African National Congress is founded, under the name South African Native National Congress (SANNC).
February 14 » The U.S. Navy commissions its first class of diesel-powered submarines.
June 4 » Massachusetts becomes the first state of the United States to set a minimum wage.
August 14 » U.S. Marines invade Nicaragua to support the U.S.-backed government installed there after José Santos Zelaya had resigned three years earlier.
October 24 » First Balkan War: The Battle of Kumanovo concludes with the Serbian victory against the Ottoman Empire.
November 2 » Bulgaria defeats the Ottoman Empire in the Battle of Lule Burgas, the bloodiest battle of the First Balkan War, which opens her way to Constantinople.
Day of death November 1, 1962
The temperature on November 1, 1962 was between 1.2 °C and 9.7 °C and averaged 4.8 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. There was 5.1 hours of sunshine (53%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. Source: KNMI
June 14 » The European Space Research Organisation is established in Paris – later becoming the European Space Agency.
July 5 » The official independence of Algeria is proclaimed after an 8-year-long war with France.
July 11 » Project Apollo: At a press conference, NASA announces lunar orbit rendezvous as the means to land astronauts on the Moon, and return them to Earth.
September 6 » The United States government begins the Exercise Spade Fork nuclear readiness drill.
September 20 » James Meredith, an African American, is temporarily barred from entering the University of Mississippi.
October 3 » Project Mercury: Wally Schirra in Sigma 7 launched from Cape Canaveral for a six-orbit flight.
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