The temperature on September 27, 1907 was between 11.4 °C and 25.6 °C and averaged 17.9 °C. There was 8.3 hours of sunshine (70%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from August 17, 1905 to February 11, 1908 the cabinet De Meester, with Mr. Th. de Meester (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
February 9 » The Mud March is the first large procession organised by the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies (NUWSS).
May 28 » The first Isle of Man TT race was held.
June 22 » The London Underground's Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway opens.
August 9 » The first Boy Scout encampment concludes at Brownsea Island in southern England.
December 6 » A coal mine explosion at Monongah, West Virginia, kills 362 workers.
December 21 » The Chilean Army commits a massacre of at least 2,000 striking saltpeter miners in Iquique, Chile.
Day of death February 11, 1999
The temperature on February 11, 1999 was between -6.5 °C and 2.7 °C and averaged -1.4 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 8.1 hours of sunshine (84%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. Source: KNMI
March 12 » Former Warsaw Pact members the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland join NATO.
March 24 » A lorry carrying margarine and flour catches fire inside the Mont Blanc Tunnel. The resulting inferno kills 38 people.
March 29 » A magnitude 6.8 earthquake in India strikes the Chamoli district in Uttar Pradesh, killing 103.
April 14 » A severe hailstorm strikes Sydney, Australia causing A$2.3billion in insured damages, the most costly natural disaster in Australian history.
May 28 » In Milan, Italy, after 22 years of restoration work, Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece The Last Supper is put back on display.
November 27 » The centre-left Labour Party takes control of the New Zealand government with leader Helen Clark becoming the first elected female Prime Minister in New Zealand's history.
Day of burial February 16, 1999
The temperature on February 16, 1999 was between 2.6 °C and 7.5 °C and averaged 5.6 °C. There was 3.4 mm of rain during 2.6 hours. There was 6.6 hours of sunshine (66%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
February 24 » China Southwest Airlines Flight 4509, a Tupolev Tu-154 aircraft, crashes on approach to Wenzhou Longwan International Airport in Wenzhou, Zhejiang, China. All 61 people on board are killed.
May 3 » Infiltration of Pakistani soldiers on Indian side resulted into the kargil war.
May 7 » In Guinea-Bissau, President João Bernardo Vieira is ousted in a military coup.
May 25 » The United States House of Representatives releases the Cox Report which details the People's Republic of China's nuclear espionage against the U.S. over the prior two decades.
May 29 » Olusegun Obasanjo takes office as President of Nigeria, the first elected and civilian head of state in Nigeria after 16 years of military rule.
December 2 » The United Kingdom devolves political power in Northern Ireland to the Northern Ireland Executive following the Good Friday Agreement.
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