The temperature on May 19, 1909 was between 4.4 °C and 17.7 °C and averaged 11.7 °C. There was 9.6 hours of sunshine (61%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
January 9 » Ernest Shackleton, leading the Nimrod Expedition to the South Pole, plants the British flag 97 nautical miles (180km; 112mi) from the South Pole, the farthest anyone had ever reached at that time.
February 26 » Kinemacolor, the first successful color motion picture process, is first shown to the general public at the Palace Theatre in London.
April 13 » The military of the Ottoman Empire reverses the Ottoman countercoup of 1909 to force the overthrow of Sultan Abdul Hamid II.
June 2 » Alfred Deakin becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the third time.
June 26 » The Science Museum in London comes into existence as an independent entity.
October 16 » William Howard Taft and Porfirio Díaz hold the first summit between a U.S. and a Mexican president. They narrowly escape assassination.
Day of marriage January 15, 1938
The temperature on January 15, 1938 was between 7.0 °C and 9.0 °C and averaged 8.3 °C. There was 0.9 mm of rain during 1.1 hours. There was 1.1 hours of sunshine (13%). The average windspeed was 6 Bft (strong wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
March 12 » Anschluss: German troops occupy and absorb Austria.
June 7 » Second Sino-Japanese War: The Chinese Nationalist government creates the 1938 Yellow River flood to halt Japanese forces. Five hundred to nine hundred thousand civilians are killed.
June 7 » The Douglas DC-4E makes its first test flight.
July 10 » Howard Hughes begins a 91-hour airplane flight around the world that will set a new record.
September 27 » The ocean liner Queen Elizabeth is launched in Glasgow.
October 30 » Orson Welles broadcasts his radio play of H. G. Wells's The War of the Worlds, causing anxiety in some of the audience in the United States.
Day of death September 12, 1991
The temperature on September 12, 1991 was between 2.5 °C and 19.1 °C and averaged 11.5 °C. There was 7.0 hours of sunshine (54%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, November 7, 1989 to Monday, August 22, 1994 the cabinet Lubbers III, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
May 5 » A riot breaks out in the Mt. Pleasant section of Washington, D.C. after police shoot a Salvadoran man.
May 16 » Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom addresses a joint session of the United States Congress. She is the first British monarch to address the U.S. Congress.
May 21 » Mengistu Haile Mariam, president of the People's Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, flees Ethiopia, effectively bringing the Ethiopian Civil War to an end.
August 25 » Linus Torvalds announces the first version of what will become Linux.
November 14 » American and British authorities announce indictments against two Libyan intelligence officials in connection with the downing of the Pan Am Flight 103.
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