The temperature on June 16, 1911 was between 4.9 °C and 19.8 °C and averaged 13.2 °C. There was 9.4 hours of sunshine (56%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. Source: KNMI
January 14 » Roald Amundsen's South Pole expedition makes landfall on the eastern edge of the Ross Ice Shelf.
February 18 » The first official flight with airmail takes place from Allahabad, United Provinces, British India (now India), when Henri Pequet, a 23-year-old pilot, delivers 6,500 letters to Naini, about 10 kilometres (6.2mi) away.
May 31 » The President of Mexico Porfirio Díaz flees the country during the Mexican Revolution.
July 7 » The United States, UK, Japan, and Russia sign the North Pacific Fur Seal Convention of 1911 banning open-water seal hunting, the first international treaty to address wildlife preservation issues.
September 1 » The armored cruiser Georgios Averof is commissioned into the Greek Navy. It now serves as a museum ship.
December 27 » "Jana Gana Mana", the national anthem of India, is first sung in the Calcutta Session of the Indian National Congress.
Day of death February 4, 1976
The average temperature on February 4, 1976 was -1.2 °C. The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. 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.
February 4 » In Guatemala and Honduras an earthquake kills more than 22,000.
April 5 » In China, the April Fifth Movement leads to the Tiananmen Incident.
July 1 » Portugal grants autonomy to Madeira.
July 22 » Japan completes its last reparation to the Philippines for war crimes committed during imperial Japan's conquest of the country in the Second World War.
September 6 » Cold War: Soviet Air Defence Forces pilot Viktor Belenko lands a Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-25 jet fighter at Hakodate in Japan and requests political asylum in the United States; his request is granted.
November 26 » "Anarchy in the U.K.", the debut single of the Sex Pistols, is released, heralding the arrival of punk rock
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