The temperature on August 16, 1912 was between 12.3 °C and 17.5 °C and averaged 14.4 °C. There was 0.7 mm of rain. There was 1.4 hours of sunshine (10%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
January 4 » The Scout Association is incorporated throughout the British Empire by royal charter.
January 6 » German geophysicist Alfred Wegener first presents his theory of continental drift.
January 11 » Immigrant textile workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts, go on strike when wages are reduced in response to a mandated shortening of the work week.
October 17 » Bulgaria, Greece and Serbia declare war on the Ottoman Empire, joining Montenegro in the First Balkan War.
October 24 » First Balkan War: The Battle of Kirk Kilisse concludes with a Bulgarian victory against the Ottoman Empire.
December 3 » Bulgaria, Greece, Montenegro, and Serbia (the Balkan League) sign an armistice with the Ottoman Empire, temporarily halting the First Balkan War. (The armistice will expire on February 3, 1913, and hostilities will resume.)
Day of death July 28, 1970
The temperature on July 28, 1970 was between 14.3 °C and 23.0 °C and averaged 19.0 °C. There was 4.8 hours of sunshine (30%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
April 1 » The first of over 670,000 AMC Gremlins are released into North America to compete with foreign imported cars.
May 15 » Philip Lafayette Gibbs and James Earl Green are killed at Jackson State University by police during student protests.
September 11 » The Dawson's Field hijackers release 88 of their hostages. The remaining hostages, mostly Jews and Israeli citizens, are held until September 25.
October 9 » The Khmer Republic is proclaimed in Cambodia.
December 2 » The United States Environmental Protection Agency begins operations.
December 17 » Polish protests: In Gdynia, soldiers fire at workers emerging from trains, killing dozens.
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