The temperature on May 3, 1912 was between 5.1 °C and 14.5 °C and averaged 10.7 °C. There was 0.6 mm of rain. There was 4.3 hours of sunshine (29%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
February 14 » Arizona is admitted as the 48th and the last contiguous U.S. state.
March 12 » The Girl Guides (later renamed the Girl Scouts of the USA) are founded in the United States.
April 16 » Harriet Quimby becomes the first woman to fly an airplane across the English Channel.
May 13 » The Royal Flying Corps, the forerunner of the Royal Air Force, is established in the United Kingdom.
July 8 » Henrique Mitchell de Paiva Couceiro leads an unsuccessful royalist attack against the First Portuguese Republic in Chaves.
November 2 » Bulgaria defeats the Ottoman Empire in the Battle of Lule Burgas, the bloodiest battle of the First Balkan War, which opens her way to Constantinople.
Day of marriage April 27, 1938
The temperature on April 27, 1938 was between 3.2 °C and 15.2 °C and averaged 9.9 °C. There was 12.1 hours of sunshine (83%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
January 3 » The March of Dimes is established as a foundation to combat infant polio by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
April 30 » The animated cartoon short Porky's Hare Hunt debuts in movie theaters, introducing Happy Rabbit, an early version of Bugs Bunny.
June 11 » Second Sino-Japanese War: The Battle of Wuhan starts.
July 3 » United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicates the Eternal Light Peace Memorial and lights the eternal flame at Gettysburg Battlefield.
July 17 » Douglas Corrigan takes off from Brooklyn to fly the "wrong way" to Ireland and becomes known as "Wrong Way" Corrigan.
September 23 » The Czechoslovak army is mobilized in response to the Munich Agreement.
Day of death August 18, 2003
The temperature on August 18, 2003 was between 12.6 °C and 23.9 °C and averaged 19.5 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain during 0.6 hours. There was 4.2 hours of sunshine (29%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, July 22, 2002 to Tuesday, May 27, 2003 the cabinet Balkenende I, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, May 27, 2003 to Friday, July 7, 2006 the cabinet Balkenende II, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
January 23 » A very weak signal from Pioneer 10 is detected for the last time, but no usable data can be extracted.
January 24 » The United States Department of Homeland Security officially begins operation.
March 13 » An article in Nature identifies the Ciampate del Diavolo as 350,000-year-old hominid footprints.
August 18 » One-year-old Zachary Turner is murdered in Newfoundland by his mother, who was awarded custody despite facing trial for the murder of Zachary's father. The case was documented in the film Dear Zachary and led to reform of Canada's bail laws.
December 24 » The Spanish police thwart an attempt by ETA to detonate 50kg of explosives at 3:55p.m. inside Madrid's busy Chamartín Station.
December 29 » The last known speaker of Akkala Sami dies, rendering the language extinct.
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