The temperature on May 16, 1912 was between 5.7 °C and 14.3 °C and averaged 10.7 °C. There was 2.8 mm of rain. There was 4.1 hours of sunshine (26%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
January 17 » British polar explorer Captain Robert Falcon Scott reaches the South Pole, one month after Roald Amundsen.
February 12 » The Xuantong Emperor, the last Emperor of China, abdicates.
February 14 » Arizona is admitted as the 48th and the last contiguous U.S. state.
February 29 » The Piedra Movediza (Moving Stone) of Tandil falls and breaks.
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.
December 19 » William Van Schaick, captain of the steamship General Slocum which caught fire and killed over one thousand people, is pardoned by U.S. President William Howard Taft after 3⁄2 years in Sing Sing prison.
Day of marriage May 20, 1937
The temperature on May 20, 1937 was between 12.8 °C and 23.4 °C and averaged 17.7 °C. There was 9.6 hours of sunshine (60%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east. Source: KNMI
April 12 » Sir Frank Whittle ground-tests the first jet engine designed to power an aircraft, at Rugby, England.
May 21 » A Soviet station, North Pole-1, becomes the first scientific research settlement to operate on the drift ice of the Arctic Ocean.
August 1 » Josip Broz Tito reads the resolution "Manifesto of constitutional congress of KPH" to the constitutive congress of KPH (Croatian Communist Party) in woods near Samobor.
September 10 » Nine nations attend the Nyon Conference to address international piracy in the Mediterranean Sea.
October 2 » Rafael Trujillo orders the execution of Haitians living in the northwestern region of the Dominican Republic.
December 21 » Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the world's first full-length animated feature, premieres at the Carthay Circle Theatre.
Day of death November 30, 1999
The temperature on November 30, 1999 was between 6.5 °C and 11.2 °C and averaged 8.7 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 2.4 hours of sunshine (29%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
March 12 » Former Warsaw Pact members the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland join NATO.
April 18 » Wayne Gretzky, the National Hockey League's all-time points scorer, plays his final game at Madison Square Garden as a teammate of the New York Rangers in a 2-1 overtime loss to the Pittsburgh Penguins. Gretzky recorded his final career point, an assist, bringing his career point total to 2,857.
May 6 » The first elections to the devolved Scottish Parliament and Welsh Assembly are held.
June 9 » Kosovo War: The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and NATO sign a peace treaty.
August 15 » Beni Ounif massacre in Algeria: Some 29 people are killed at a false roadblock near the Moroccan border, leading to temporary tensions with Morocco.
August 31 » The first of a series of bombings in Moscow kills one person and wounds 40 others.
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