The temperature on November 24, 1912 was between 4.3 °C and 8.6 °C and averaged 6.5 °C. There was 2.6 mm of rain. There was 0.8 hours of sunshine (10%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
February 12 » The Xuantong Emperor, the last Emperor of China, abdicates.
April 18 » The Cunard liner RMSCarpathia brings 705 survivors from the RMSTitanic to New York City.
September 28 » Corporal Frank S. Scott of the United States Army becomes the first enlisted man to die in an airplane crash.
September 28 » The Ulster Covenant is signed by some 500,000 Ulster Protestant Unionists in opposition to the Third Irish Home Rule Bill.
October 11 » First Balkan War: The day after the Battle of Sarantaporo, Greek troops liberate the city of Kozani.
December 28 » The first municipally owned streetcars take to the streets in San Francisco.
Day of death April 16, 1987
The temperature on April 16, 1987 was between 8.0 °C and 15.7 °C and averaged 11.5 °C. There was 0.3 hours of sunshine (2%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, November 4, 1986 to Tuesday, November 7, 1989 the cabinet Lubbers II, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
March 6 » The British ferry MSHerald of Free Enterprise capsizes in about 90 seconds, killing 193.
April 27 » The U.S. Department of Justice bars Austrian President Kurt Waldheim (and his wife, Elisabeth, who had also been a Nazi) from entering the US, charging that he had aided in the deportations and executions of thousands of Jews and others as a German Army officer during World War II.
June 8 » New Zealand's Labour government establishes a national nuclear-free zone under the New Zealand Nuclear Free Zone, Disarmament, and Arms Control Act 1987.
October 11 » Start of Operation Pawan by Indian forces in Sri Lanka. Thousands of civilians, insurgents, soldiers die.
November 8 » Remembrance Day bombing: A Provisional IRA bomb explodes in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland during a ceremony honouring those who had died in wars involving British forces. Twelve people are killed and sixty-three wounded.
November 15 » In Brașov, Romania, workers rebel against the communist regime of Nicolae Ceaușescu.
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