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
August 6 » The Bull Moose Party meets at the Chicago Coliseum.
September 28 » The Ulster Covenant is signed by some 500,000 Ulster Protestant Unionists in opposition to the Third Irish Home Rule Bill.
October 3 » U.S. forces defeat Nicaraguan rebels at the Battle of Coyotepe Hill.
October 18 » First Balkan War: King Peter I of Serbia issues a declaration "To the Serbian People", as his country joins the war.
October 19 » Italo-Turkish War: Italy takes possession of what is now Libya from the Ottoman Empire.
October 26 » First Balkan War: The Ottomans lose the cities of Thessaloniki and Skopje.
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
February 16 » Wallace H. Carothers receives a United States patent for nylon.
March 18 » The New London School explosion in New London, Texas, kills 300 people, mostly children.
April 12 » Sir Frank Whittle ground-tests the first jet engine designed to power an aircraft, at Rugby, England.
April 26 » Spanish Civil War: Guernica, Spain, is bombed by German Luftwaffe.
June 30 » The world's first emergency telephone number, 999, is introduced in London.
August 1 » Josip Broz Tito reads the resolution "Manifesto of constitutional congress of KPH" to the constitutive congress of KPH (Croatian Communist Party) in woods near Samobor.
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
April 24 » China launches Dong Fang Hong I, becoming the fifth nation to put an object into orbit using its own booster.
May 4 » Vietnam War: Kent State shootings: The Ohio National Guard, sent to Kent State University after disturbances in the city of Kent the weekend before, opens fire killing four unarmed students and wounding nine others. The students were protesting the Cambodian Campaign of the United States and South Vietnam.
August 9 » LANSA Flight 502 crashes after takeoff from Alejandro Velasco Astete International Airport in Cusco, Peru, killing 99 of the 100 people on board, as well as two people on the ground.
September 9 » A British airliner is hijacked by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and flown to Dawson's Field in Jordan.
November 10 » Vietnam War: Vietnamization: For the first time in five years, an entire week ends with no reports of American combat fatalities in Southeast Asia.
December 15 » Soviet spacecraft Venera 7 successfully lands on Venus. It is the first successful soft landing on another planet.
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