The temperature on September 28, 1909 was between 8.7 °C and 15.0 °C and averaged 11.8 °C. There was 4.0 mm of rain. There was 0.7 hours of sunshine (6%). The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. Source: KNMI
February 12 » The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is founded.
February 20 » Publication of the Futurist Manifesto in the French journal Le Figaro.
April 6 » Robert Peary and Matthew Henson become the first people to reach the North Pole; Peary's claim has been disputed because of failings in his navigational ability.
April 11 » The city of Tel Aviv is founded.
April 14 » A massacre is organized by the Ottoman Empire against the Armenian population of Cilicia.
April 18 » Joan of Arc is beatified in Rome.
Day of death February 20, 1999
The temperature on February 20, 1999 was between 3.5 °C and 8.5 °C and averaged 5.8 °C. There was 5.5 hours of sunshine (54%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
May 2 » Panamanian general election, 1999: Mireya Moscoso becomes the first woman to be elected President of Panama.
May 3 » Infiltration of Pakistani soldiers on Indian side resulted into the kargil war.
May 3 » The southwestern portion of Oklahoma City is devastated by an F5 tornado, killing forty-five people, injuring 665, and causing $1billion in damage. The tornado is one of 66 from the 1999 Oklahoma tornado outbreak. This tornado also produces the highest wind speed ever recorded, measured at 301 +/- 20mph (484 +/- 32km/h).
May 24 » The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague, Netherlands indicts Slobodan Milošević and four others for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Kosovo.
July 26 » Kargil conflict officially comes to an end. The Indian Army announces the complete eviction of Pakistani intruders.
August 31 » The first of a series of bombings in Moscow kills one person and wounds 40 others.
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