The temperature on April 17, 1912 was between 2.0 °C and 15.9 °C and averaged 9.7 °C. There was 11.8 hours of sunshine (84%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east. Source: KNMI
February 14 » The U.S. Navy commissions its first class of diesel-powered submarines.
April 15 » The British passenger liner RMSTitanic sinks in the North Atlantic at 2:20a.m., two hours and forty minutes after hitting an iceberg. Only 710 of 2,227 passengers and crew on board survive.
May 18 » The first Indian film, Shree Pundalik by Dadasaheb Torne, is released in Mumbai.
October 18 » First Balkan War: King Peter I of Serbia issues a declaration "To the Serbian People", as his country joins the war.
October 19 » Italo-Turkish War: Italy takes possession of what is now Libya from the Ottoman Empire.
November 28 » Albania declares its independence from the Ottoman Empire.
Day of marriage November 30, 1935
The temperature on November 30, 1935 was between 3.5 °C and 7.8 °C and averaged 6.4 °C. There was 4.5 mm of rain during 4.8 hours. There was 0.4 hours of sunshine (5%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
January 7 » Benito Mussolini and French Foreign minister Pierre Laval sign the Franco-Italian Agreement.
February 20 » Caroline Mikkelsen becomes the first woman to set foot in Antarctica.
May 31 » A 7.7 Mw earthquake destroys Quetta in modern-day Pakistan killing 40,000.
June 25 » Colombia–Soviet Union relations are established.
September 2 » The Labor Day Hurricane, the most intense hurricane to strike the United States, makes landfall at Long Key, Florida, killing at least 400.
November 3 » George II of Greece regains his throne through a popular, though possibly fixed, plebiscite.
Day of death February 18, 1955
The temperature on February 18, 1955 was between -10.5 °C and 1.1 °C and averaged -3.9 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain during 0.3 hours. There was 4.3 hours of sunshine (42%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. Source: KNMI
April 7 » Winston Churchill resigns as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom amid indications of failing health.
April 11 » The Air India Kashmir Princess is bombed and crashes in a failed assassination attempt on Zhou Enlai by the Kuomintang.
May 14 » Cold War: Eight Communist bloc countries, including the Soviet Union, sign a mutual defense treaty called the Warsaw Pact.
May 18 » Operation Passage to Freedom, the evacuation of 310,000 Vietnamese civilians, soldiers and non-Vietnamese members of the French Army from communist North Vietnam to South Vietnam following the end of the First Indochina War, ends.
September 16 » The military coup to unseat President Juan Perón of Argentina is launched at midnight.
October 1 » The Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region is established.
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