The temperature on March 19, 1909 was between 3.1 °C and 12.8 °C and averaged 7.7 °C. There was 2.7 mm of rain. There was 3.7 hours of sunshine (31%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. Source: KNMI
January 23 » RMSRepublic, a passenger ship of the White Star Line, becomes the first ship to use the CQD distress signal after colliding with another ship, the SS Florida, off the Massachusetts coastline, an event that kills six people. The Republic sinks the next day.
February 20 » Publication of the Futurist Manifesto in the French journal Le Figaro.
March 23 » Theodore Roosevelt leaves New York for a post-presidency safari in Africa. The trip is sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution and National Geographic Society.
March 31 » Serbia formally withdraws its opposition to Austro-Hungarian actions in the Bosnian Crisis.
April 11 » The city of Tel Aviv is founded.
December 10 » Selma Lagerlöf becomes the first female writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Day of death June 19, 1985
The temperature on June 19, 1985 was between 9.6 °C and 18.5 °C and averaged 14.6 °C. There was 2.8 mm of rain during 3.7 hours. There was 1.4 hours of sunshine (8%). 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 Thursday, November 4, 1982 to Monday, July 14, 1986 the cabinet Lubbers I, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
July 19 » The Val di Stava dam collapses killing 268 people in Val di Stava, Italy.
September 1 » A joint American–French expedition locates the wreckage of the RMSTitanic.
September 19 » A strong earthquake kills thousands and destroys about 400 buildings in Mexico City.
November 13 » The volcano Nevado del Ruiz erupts and melts a glacier, causing a lahar (volcanic mudslide) that buries Armero, Colombia, killing approximately 23,000 people.
November 15 » A research assistant is injured when a package from the Unabomber addressed to a University of Michigan professor explodes.
December 14 » Wilma Mankiller takes office as the first woman elected to serve as Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation.
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