The temperature on May 21, 1912 was between 8.3 °C and 19.5 °C and averaged 13.5 °C. There was 9.6 hours of sunshine (60%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
March 12 » The Girl Guides (later renamed the Girl Scouts of the USA) are founded in the United States.
May 5 » Pravda, the "voice" of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, begins publication in Saint Petersburg.
May 8 » Paramount Pictures is founded.
July 8 » Henrique Mitchell de Paiva Couceiro leads an unsuccessful royalist attack against the First Portuguese Republic in Chaves.
September 28 » Corporal Frank S. Scott of the United States Army becomes the first enlisted man to die in an airplane crash.
November 28 » Albania declares its independence from the Ottoman Empire.
Day of marriage August 12, 1936
The temperature on August 12, 1936 was between 14.1 °C and 20.4 °C and averaged 16.6 °C. There was 0.7 hours of sunshine (5%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
February 16 » The Popular Front wins the 1936 Spanish general election.
May 9 » Italy formally annexes Ethiopia after taking the capital Addis Ababa on May 5.
July 20 » The Montreux Convention is signed in Switzerland, authorizing Turkey to fortify the Dardanelles and Bosphorus but guaranteeing free passage to ships of all nations in peacetime.
July 22 » Spanish Civil War: The Popular Executive Committee of Valencia takes power in the Valencian Community.
October 4 » The British Union of Fascists and various anti-fascist organizations violently clash in the Battle of Cable Street.
December 10 » Abdication Crisis: Edward VIII signs the Instrument of Abdication.
Day of death June 11, 1996
The temperature on June 11, 1996 was between 15.0 °C and 25.1 °C and averaged 20.5 °C. There was 2.4 mm of rain during 0.8 hours. There was 13.7 hours of sunshine (82%). 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, August 22, 1994 to Monday, August 3, 1998 the cabinet a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabinet-Kok_I" class="extern">Kok I, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
January 8 » An Antonov An-32 cargo aircraft crashes into a crowded market in Kinshasa, Zaire, killing up to 223 on the ground; two of six crew members are also killed.
January 29 » President Jacques Chirac announces a "definitive end" to French nuclear weapons testing.
February 8 » The U.S. Congress passes the Communications Decency Act.
February 13 » The Nepalese Civil War is initiated in the Kingdom of Nepal by the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist-Centre).
April 1 » The government of Nova Scotia amalgamated the City of Halifax and the over 200 communities around the area to create the Halifax Regional Municipality.
May 28 » U.S. President Bill Clinton's former business partners in the Whitewater land deal, Jim McDougal and Susan McDougal, and the Governor of Arkansas Jim Guy Tucker, are convicted of fraud.
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