The temperature on September 19, 1912 was between 8.0 °C and 14.8 °C and averaged 11.2 °C. There was 2.6 hours of sunshine (21%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north. Source: KNMI
January 4 » The Scout Association is incorporated throughout the British Empire by royal charter.
January 23 » The International Opium Convention is signed at The Hague.
March 6 » Italo-Turkish War: Italian forces become the first to use airships in war, as two dirigibles drop bombs on Turkish troops encamped at Janzur, from an altitude of 6,000 feet.
April 15 » The British passenger liner RMSTitanic sinks in the North Atlantic at 2:20a.m., two hours and forty minutes after hitting an iceberg. Only 710 of 2,227 passengers and crew on board survive.
August 6 » The Bull Moose Party meets at the Chicago Coliseum.
December 28 » The first municipally owned streetcars take to the streets in San Francisco.
Day of marriage April 6, 1943
The temperature on April 6, 1943 was between 0.6 °C and 11.7 °C and averaged 6.4 °C. There was 1.3 mm of rain during 1.2 hours. There was 5.2 hours of sunshine (39%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from July 27, 1941 to February 23, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy II, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
March 19 » Frank Nitti, the Chicago Outfit Boss after Al Capone, commits suicide at the Chicago Central Railyard.
June 1 » BOAC Flight 777 is shot down over the Bay of Biscay by German Junkers Ju 88s, killing British actor Leslie Howard and leading to speculation that it was actually an attempt to kill British Prime Minister Winston Churchill.
June 25 » The Holocaust: Jews in the Częstochowa Ghetto in Poland stage an uprising against the Nazis.
September 12 » World War II: Benito Mussolini is rescued from house arrest by German commando forces led by Otto Skorzeny.
November 18 » World War II: Battle of Berlin: Four hundred and forty Royal Air Force planes bomb Berlin causing only light damage and killing 131. The RAF loses nine aircraft and 53 air crew.
December 26 » World War II: German warship Scharnhorst is sunk off of Norway's North Cape after a battle against major Royal Navy forces.
Day of death December 15, 1953
The temperature on December 15, 1953 was between 5.9 °C and 10.4 °C and averaged 8.4 °C. There was 0.9 mm of rain during 2.4 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. Source: KNMI
January 5 » The play Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett receives its première in Paris.
January 13 » An article appears in Pravda accusing some of the most prestigious and prominent doctors, mostly Jews, in the Soviet Union of taking part in a vast plot to poison members of the top Soviet political and military leadership.
February 19 » Book censorship in the United States: The Georgia Literature Commission is established.
April 8 » Mau Mau leader Jomo Kenyatta is convicted by British Kenya's rulers.
April 25 » Francis Crick and James Watson publish "Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids: A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid" describing the double helix structure of DNA.
May 29 » Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay become the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest, on Tenzing Norgay's (adopted) 39th birthday.
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