The temperature on February 22, 1911 was between 6.1 °C and 9.7 °C and averaged 7.9 °C. There was 0.7 mm of rain. There was 1.5 hours of sunshine (14%). The average windspeed was 6 Bft (strong wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
January 26 » Glenn Curtiss flies the first successful American seaplane.
March 25 » In New York City, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire kills 146 garment workers.
March 29 » The M1911 .45 ACP pistol becomes the official U.S. Army side arm.
September 7 » French poet Guillaume Apollinaire is arrested and put in jail on suspicion of stealing the Mona Lisa from the Louvre museum.
October 24 » Orville Wright remains in the air nine minutes and 45 seconds in a glider at Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina.
December 14 » Roald Amundsen's team, comprising himself, Olav Bjaaland, Helmer Hanssen, Sverre Hassel, and Oscar Wisting, becomes the first to reach the South Pole.
Day of death April 5, 1975
The temperature on April 5, 1975 was between -0.8 °C and 8.3 °C and averaged 2.5 °C. There was 2.0 mm of rain during 0.8 hours. There was 3.3 hours of sunshine (25%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Friday, May 11, 1973 to Monday, December 19, 1977 the cabinet Den Uyl, with Drs. J.M. den Uyl (PvdA) as prime minister.
April 21 » Vietnam War: President of South Vietnam Nguyễn Văn Thiệu flees Saigon, as Xuân Lộc, the last South Vietnamese outpost blocking a direct North Vietnamese assault on Saigon, falls.
June 5 » The United Kingdom holds its first country-wide referendum on membership of the European Economic Community (EEC).
August 15 » Bangladeshi leader Sheikh Mujibur Rahman is killed along with most members of his family during a military coup.
September 22 » Sara Jane Moore tries to assassinate U.S. President Gerald Ford, but is foiled by the Secret Service.
November 25 » Suriname gains independence from the Netherlands.
December 26 » Tu-144, the world's first commercial supersonic aircraft, surpassing Mach2, went into service.
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