The temperature on October 25, 1909 was between 3.2 °C and 10.6 °C and averaged 5.8 °C. There was 3.9 mm of rain. There was 1.7 hours of sunshine (17%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
January 23 » RMSRepublic, a passenger ship of the White Star Line, becomes the first ship to use the CQD distress signal after colliding with another ship, the SS Florida, off the Massachusetts coastline, an event that kills six people. The Republic sinks the next day.
January 28 » United States troops leave Cuba with the exception of Guantanamo Bay Naval Base after being there since the Spanish–American War.
April 9 » The U.S. Congress passes the Payne–Aldrich Tariff Act.
April 18 » Joan of Arc is beatified in Rome.
August 30 » Burgess Shale fossils are discovered by Charles Doolittle Walcott.
October 26 » An Jung-geun assassinates Japan's Resident-General of Korea.
Day of death May 17, 1988
The temperature on May 17, 1988 was between 9.3 °C and 17.5 °C and averaged 13.8 °C. There was 12.7 hours of sunshine (81%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north. 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.
March 13 » The Seikan Tunnel, the longest undersea tunnel in the world, opens between Aomori and Hakodate, Japan.
May 8 » A fire at Illinois Bell's Hinsdale Central Office triggers an extended 1AESS network outage once considered to be the "worst telecommunications disaster in US telephone industry history".
May 9 » New Parliament House, Canberra officially opens.
June 27 » The Gare de Lyon rail accident in Paris, France, kills 56 people.
July 23 » General Ne Win, effective ruler of Burma since 1962, resigns after pro-democracy protests.
November 19 » Serbian communist representative and future Serbian and Yugoslav president Slobodan Milošević publicly declares that Serbia is under attack from Albanian separatists in Kosovo as well as internal treachery within Yugoslavia and a foreign conspiracy to destroy Serbia and Yugoslavia.
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