The temperature on August 12, 1911 was between 17.7 °C and 31.1 °C and averaged 24.3 °C. There was 10.3 hours of sunshine (69%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east. Source: KNMI
January 12 » The University of the Philippines College of Law is formally established; three future Philippine presidents are among the first enrollees.
May 31 » The President of Mexico Porfirio Díaz flees the country during the Mexican Revolution.
May 31 » The RMS Titanic is launched in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
June 16 » IBM founded as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company in Endicott, New York.
October 5 » The Kowloon–Canton Railway commences service.
October 10 » The day after a bomb explodes prematurely, the Wuchang Uprising begins against the Chinese monarchy.
Day of marriage May 20, 1937
The temperature on May 20, 1937 was between 12.2 °C and 22.5 °C and averaged 17.1 °C. There was 9.6 hours of sunshine (60%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east. Source: KNMI
February 16 » Wallace H. Carothers receives a United States patent for nylon.
February 21 » The League of Nations bans foreign national "volunteers" in the Spanish Civil War.
April 1 » Aden becomes a British crown colony.
April 9 » The Kamikaze arrives at Croydon Airport in London. It is the first Japanese-built aircraft to fly to Europe.
April 26 » Spanish Civil War: Guernica, Spain, is bombed by German Luftwaffe.
December 13 » Second Sino-Japanese War: Battle of Nanking: The city of Nanjing, defended by the National Revolutionary Army under the command of General Tang Shengzhi, falls to the Japanese. This is followed by the Nanking Massacre, in which Japanese troops rape and slaughter hundreds of thousands of civilians.
Day of death June 5, 1989
The temperature on June 5, 1989 was between 3.8 °C and 15.8 °C and averaged 10.5 °C. There was 8.7 mm of rain during 2.6 hours. There was 8.6 hours of sunshine (52%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-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.
In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, November 7, 1989 to Monday, August 22, 1994 the cabinet Lubbers III, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
April 3 » The US Supreme Court upholds the jurisdictional rights of tribal courts under the Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978 in Mississippi Choctaw Band v. Holyfield.
May 1 » Disney-MGM Studios opens at Walt Disney World near Orlando, Florida, United States.
May 13 » Large groups of students occupy Tiananmen Square and begin a hunger strike.
June 7 » Surinam Airways Flight 764 crashes on approach to Paramaribo-Zanderij International Airport in Suriname because of pilot error, killing 176 of 187 aboard.
October 17 » The East German Politburo votes to remove Erich Honecker from his role as General Secretary.
December 27 » The Romanian Revolution concludes, as the last minor street confrontations and stray shootings abruptly end in the country's capital, Bucharest.
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