January 28 » The Carnegie Institution of Washington is founded in Washington, D.C. with a $10 million gift from Andrew Carnegie.
April 2 » "Electric Theatre", the first full-time movie theater in the United States, opens in Los Angeles.
May 31 » Second Boer War: The Treaty of Vereeniging ends the war and ensures British control of South Africa.
August 22 » Cadillac Motor Company is founded.
December 10 » The opening of the reservoir of the Aswan Dam in Egypt.
December 14 » The Commercial Pacific Cable Company lays the first Pacific telegraph cable, from San Francisco to Honolulu.
Day of marriage May 12, 1944
The temperature on May 12, 1944 was between 6.1 °C and 24.5 °C and averaged 16.3 °C. There was 13.2 hours of sunshine (85%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from July 27, 1941 to February 23, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy II, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
April 22 » World War II: In Greenland, the Allied Sledge Patrol attack the German Bassgeiger weather station.
June 13 » World War II: The Battle of Villers-Bocage: German tank ace Michael Wittmann ambushes elements of the British 7th Armoured Division, destroying up to fourteen tanks, fifteen personnel carriers and two anti-tank guns in a Tiger I tank.
July 22 » The Polish Committee of National Liberation publishes its manifesto, starting the period of Communist rule in Poland.
August 12 » Alençon is liberated by General Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque, the first city in France to be liberated from the Nazis by French forces.
September 6 » World War II: Soviet forces capture the city of Tartu, Estonia.
October 7 » World War II: During an uprising at Birkenau concentration camp, Jewish prisoners burn down Crematorium IV.
Day of death September 16, 1992
The temperature on September 16, 1992 was between 8.1 °C and 18.0 °C and averaged 14.4 °C. There was 1.8 hours of sunshine (14%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest. 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.
January 16 » El Salvador officials and rebel leaders sign the Chapultepec Peace Accords in Mexico City, Mexico ending the 12-year Salvadoran Civil War that claimed at least 75,000 lives.
January 22 » Space Shuttle program: the space shuttle Discovery launches on STS-42 carrying Dr. Roberta Bondar, who becomes the first Canadian woman and the first neurologist in space.
July 10 » In Miami, former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega is sentenced to 40 years in prison for drug and racketeering violations.
July 20 » Václav Havel resigns as president of Czechoslovakia.
October 17 » Having gone to the wrong house, Japanese student Yoshihiro Hattori is killed by the homeowner in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
December 4 » Somali Civil War: President George H. W. Bush orders 28,000 U.S. troops to Somalia in Northeast Africa.
Day of burial September 21, 1992
The temperature on September 21, 1992 was between 13.4 °C and 21.2 °C and averaged 17.1 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 3.2 hours of sunshine (26%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. 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.
February 12 » The current Constitution of Mongolia comes into effect.
March 31 » The Treaty of Federation is signed in Moscow.
April 27 » The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, comprising Serbia and Montenegro, is proclaimed.
May 5 » Armand Césari Stadium disaster in Bastia (Corsica): Eighteen people are killed and 2,300 are injured when one of the terraces collapses before a football match between SC Bastia and Olympique de Marseille.
July 23 » Abkhazia declares independence from Georgia.
November 24 » China Southern Airlines Flight 3943 crashes on approach to Guilin Qifengling Airport in Guilin, China, killing all 141 people on board.
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