The temperature on July 16, 1911 was between 9.9 °C and 17.4 °C and averaged 14.2 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain. There was 2.2 hours of sunshine (14%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. Source: KNMI
January 26 » Glenn Curtiss flies the first successful American seaplane.
April 29 » Tsinghua University, one of mainland China's leading universities, is founded.
May 23 » The New York Public Library is dedicated.
September 20 » The White Star Line's RMSOlympic collides with the British warship HMSHawke.
October 5 » The Kowloon–Canton Railway commences service.
October 24 » Orville Wright remains in the air nine minutes and 45 seconds in a glider at Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina.
Day of death November 21, 1976
The temperature on November 21, 1976 was between 2.2 °C and 6.4 °C and averaged 4.8 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 0.1 hours. There was 0.9 hours of sunshine (11%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Friday, May 11, 1973 to Monday, December 19, 1977 the cabinet Den Uyl, with Drs. J.M. den Uyl (PvdA) as prime minister.
January 3 » The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, adopted by the United Nations General Assembly, comes into force.
January 4 » The Troubles: The Ulster Volunteer Force shoots dead six Irish Catholic civilians in County Armagh, Northern Ireland. The next day, gunmen would shoot dead ten Protestant civilians nearby in retaliation.
February 27 » The formerly Spanish territory of Western Sahara, under the auspices of the Polisario Front declares independence as the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic.
June 16 » Soweto uprising: A non-violent march by 15,000 students in Soweto, South Africa, turns into days of rioting when police open fire on the crowd.
June 27 » Air France Flight 139 (Tel Aviv-Athens-Paris) is hijacked en route to Paris by the PLO and redirected to Entebbe, Uganda.
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