The temperature on April 6, 1912 was between 8.8 °C and 16.3 °C and averaged 11.8 °C. There was 4.5 hours of sunshine (34%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
April 2 » The ill-fated RMSTitanic begins sea trials.
May 4 » Italy occupies the Greek island of Rhodes.
May 5 » Pravda, the "voice" of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, begins publication in Saint Petersburg.
September 25 » Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism is founded in 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.
November 27 » Spain declares a protectorate over the north shore of Morocco.
Day of marriage May 13, 1937
The temperature on May 13, 1937 was between 8.0 °C and 15.7 °C and averaged 10.9 °C. There was 0.8 mm of rain during 0.8 hours. There was 1.5 hours of sunshine (10%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
March 18 » Spanish Civil War: Spanish Republican forces defeat the Italians at the Battle of Guadalajara.
March 21 » Ponce massacre: Nineteen people in Ponce, Puerto Rico are gunned down by police acting on orders of the US-appointed Governor, Blanton C. Winship.
July 7 » The Marco Polo Bridge Incident provides the Imperial Japanese Army with a pretext for starting the Second Sino-Japanese War.
July 26 » Spanish Civil War: End of the Battle of Brunete with the Nationalist victory.
August 13 » Second Sino-Japanese War: The Battle of Shanghai begins.
December 21 » Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the world's first full-length animated feature, premieres at the Carthay Circle Theatre.
Day of death August 6, 1970
The temperature on August 6, 1970 was between 15.3 °C and 24.4 °C and averaged 20.3 °C. There was 0.3 hours of sunshine (2%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. Source: KNMI
March 18 » Lon Nol ousts Prince Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia.
May 26 » The Soviet Tupolev Tu-144 becomes the first commercial transport to exceed Mach 2.
July 31 » Black Tot Day: The last day of the officially sanctioned rum ration in the Royal Navy.
August 17 » Venera program: Venera 7 launched. It will later become the first spacecraft to successfully transmit data from the surface of another planet (Venus).
September 6 » Two passenger jets bound from Europe to New York are simultaneously hijacked by Palestinian terrorist members of the PFLP and taken to Dawson's Field, Jordan.
November 1 » Club Cinq-Sept fire in Saint-Laurent-du-Pont, France kills 146 young people.
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