The temperature on April 19, 1904 was between 7.9 °C and 17.4 °C and averaged 12.3 °C. There was 3.8 hours of sunshine (27%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. Source: KNMI
January 8 » The Blackstone Library is dedicated, marking the beginning of the Chicago Public Library system.
February 8 » Aceh War: Dutch Colonial Army's Marechaussee regiment led by General G.C.E. van Daalen launch military campaign to capture Gayo Highland, Alas Highland, and Batak Highland in Dutch East Indies' Northern Sumatra region, which ends with genocide to Acehnese and Bataks people.
May 4 » The United States begins construction of the Panama Canal.
May 21 » The Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) is founded in Paris.
June 28 » The SSNorge runs aground on Hasselwood Rock in the North Atlantic 430 kilometres (270mi) northwest of Ireland. More than 635 people die during the sinking.
December 7 » Comparative fuel trials begin between warships HMSSpiteful and HMSPeterel: Spiteful was the first warship powered solely by fuel oil, and the trials led to the obsolescence of coal in ships of the Royal Navy.
Day of marriage May 19, 1979
The temperature on May 19, 1979 was between 4.3 °C and 16.4 °C and averaged 11.5 °C. There was 14.1 hours of sunshine (89%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. 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.
March 19 » The United States House of Representatives begins broadcasting its day-to-day business via the cable television network C-SPAN.
April 1 » Nickelodeon was launched in United States.
April 10 » Red River Valley tornado outbreak: A tornado lands in Wichita Falls, Texas killing 42 people.
June 4 » Flight Lieutenant Jerry Rawlings takes power in Ghana after a military coup in which General Fred Akuffo is overthrown.
October 18 » The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) begins allowing people to have home satellite earth stations without a federal government license.
October 26 » Park Chung-hee, President of South Korea, is assassinated by Korean CIA head Kim Jae-gyu.
Day of death April 11, 1980
The temperature on April 11, 1980 was between -1.0 °C and 12.1 °C and averaged 6.4 °C. There was 3.0 hours of sunshine (22%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. 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 21 » Iran Air Flight 291 crashes in the Alborz Mountains while on approach to Mehrabad International Airport in Tehran, Iran, killing 128 people.
February 2 » Reports surface that the FBI is targeting allegedly corrupt Congressmen in the Abscam operation.
April 30 » Beatrix is inaugurated as Queen of the Netherlands following the abdication of Juliana.
May 14 » Salvadoran Civil War: the Sumpul River massacre occurs in Chalatenango, El Salvador.
July 29 » Iran adopts a new "holy" flag after the Islamic Revolution.
September 17 » After weeks of strikes at the Lenin Shipyard in Gdańsk, Poland, the nationwide independent trade union Solidarity is established.
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