The temperature on December 20, 1911 was between 6.7 °C and 9.8 °C and averaged 8.1 °C. There was 12.5 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
January 14 » Roald Amundsen's South Pole expedition makes landfall on the eastern edge of the Ross Ice Shelf.
January 21 » The first Monte Carlo Rally takes place.
March 25 » In New York City, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire kills 146 garment workers.
April 6 » During the Battle of Deçiq, Dedë Gjon Luli Dedvukaj, leader of the Malësori Albanians, raises the Albanian flag in the town of Tuzi, Montenegro, for the first time after George Kastrioti (Skanderbeg).
September 7 » French poet Guillaume Apollinaire is arrested and put in jail on suspicion of stealing the Mona Lisa from the Louvre museum.
October 10 » The day after a bomb explodes prematurely, the Wuchang Uprising begins against the Chinese monarchy.
Day of marriage June 14, 1934
The temperature on June 14, 1934 was between 5.2 °C and 22.1 °C and averaged 14.9 °C. There was 3.3 hours of sunshine (20%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
May 19 » Zveno and the Bulgarian Army engineer a coup d'état and install Kimon Georgiev as the new Prime Minister of Bulgaria.
June 26 » United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Federal Credit Union Act, which establishes credit unions.
September 1 » The first Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer animated cartoon, The Discontented Canary, is released to movie theatres.
November 11 » The Shrine of Remembrance in Melbourne, Australia is opened.
December 1 » In the Soviet Union, Politburo member Sergey Kirov is assassinated. Stalin uses the incident as a pretext to initiate the Great Purge.
December 29 » Japan renounces the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922 and the London Naval Treaty of 1930.
Day of death July 15, 1987
The temperature on July 15, 1987 was between 16.5 °C and 23.4 °C and averaged 20.1 °C. There was 7.4 mm of rain during 1.5 hours. There was 1.8 hours of sunshine (11%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. 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.
February 23 » Supernova 1987a is seen in the Large Magellanic Cloud.
June 19 » Basque separatist group ETA commits one of its most violent attacks, in which a bomb is set off in a supermarket, Hipercor, killing 21 and injuring 45.
June 28 » For the first time in military history, a civilian population is targeted for chemical attack when Iraqi warplanes bombed the Iranian town of Sardasht.
September 2 » In Moscow, the trial begins for 19-year-old pilot Mathias Rust, who flew his Cessna airplane into Red Square in May.
November 22 » Two Chicago television stations are hijacked by an unknown pirate dressed as Max Headroom.
November 28 » South African Airways Flight 295 crashes into the Indian Ocean, killing all 159 people on board.
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