The temperature on March 3, 1911 was between 5.1 °C and 8.3 °C and averaged 7.1 °C. There was 1.2 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
January 15 » Palestinian Arabic-language Falastin newspaper founded.
July 24 » Hiram Bingham III re-discovers Machu Picchu, "the Lost City of the Incas".
August 21 » The Mona Lisa is stolen by Vincenzo Peruggia, a Louvre employee.
August 29 » Ishi, considered the last Native American to make contact with European Americans, emerges from the wilderness of northeastern California.
December 24 » Lackawanna Cut-Off railway line opens in New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
December 29 » Mongolia gains independence from the Qing dynasty, enthroning 8th Jebtsundamba Khutughtu as Khagan of Mongolia.
Day of death December 28, 1979
The temperature on December 28, 1979 was between 1.6 °C and 6.0 °C and averaged 4.7 °C. There was 14.4 mm of rain during 12.0 hours. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, December 19, 1977 to Friday, September 11, 1981 the cabinet Van Agt I, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA/KVP) as prime minister.
January 16 » The last Iranian Shah flees Iran with his family for good and relocates to Egypt.
February 18 » Richard Petty wins a then-record sixth Daytona 500 after leaders Donnie Allison and Cale Yarborough crash on the final lap of the first NASCAR race televised live flag-to-flag.
March 17 » The Penmanshiel Tunnel collapses during engineering works, killing two workers.
May 21 » White Night riots in San Francisco following the manslaughter conviction of Dan White for the assassinations of George Moscone and Harvey Milk.
July 1 » Sony introduces the Walkman.
November 21 » The United States Embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan, is attacked by a mob and set on fire, killing four.
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