The temperature on July 16, 1912 was between 15.9 °C and 28.2 °C and averaged 21.9 °C. There was 12.1 hours of sunshine (74%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. Source: KNMI
April 10 » RMS Titanic sets sail from Southampton, England on her maiden and only voyage.
June 4 » Massachusetts becomes the first state of the United States to set a minimum wage.
October 18 » First Balkan War: King Peter I of Serbia issues a declaration "To the Serbian People", as his country joins the war.
October 26 » First Balkan War: The Ottomans lose the cities of Thessaloniki and Skopje.
November 12 » The frozen bodies of Robert Scott and his men are found on the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica.
December 6 » The Nefertiti Bust is discovered.
Day of marriage June 6, 1936
The temperature on June 6, 1936 was between 9.2 °C and 20.7 °C and averaged 14.6 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 0.2 hours. There was 13.0 hours of sunshine (79%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest. Source: KNMI
July 26 » Spanish Civil War: Germany and Italy decide to intervene in the war in support for Francisco Franco and the Nationalist faction.
August 24 » The Australian Antarctic Territory is created.
September 14 » Raoul Villain, who assassinated the French Socialist Jean Jaures, is himself killed by Spanish Republicans in Ibiza
October 27 » Mrs Wallis Simpson obtains her divorce, which would eventually allow her to marry King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom, thus forcing his abdication from the throne.
December 30 » The United Auto Workers union stages its first sitdown strike.
Day of death October 10, 1983
The temperature on October 10, 1983 was between 10.4 °C and 14.7 °C and averaged 13.2 °C. There was 1.4 mm of rain during 1.9 hours. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
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 6 » The first United States Football League games are played.
March 21 » The first cases of the 1983 West Bank fainting epidemic begin; Israelis and Palestinians accuse each other of poison gas, but the cause is later determined mostly to be psychosomatic.
August 18 » Hurricane Alicia hits the Texas coast, killing 21 people and causing over US$1 billion in damage (1983 dollars).
October 13 » Ameritech Mobile Communications launches the first US cellular network in Chicago.
December 31 » Benjamin Ward is appointed New York City Police Department's first ever African American police commissioner.
December 31 » In Nigeria a coup d'état led by Major General Muhammadu Buhari ends the Second Nigerian Republic.
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