The temperature on June 25, 1916 was between 10.6 °C and 21.0 °C and averaged 15.4 °C. There was 4.5 hours of sunshine (27%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from August 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
February 29 » Child labor: In South Carolina, the minimum working age for factory, mill, and mine workers is raised from 12 to 14 years old.
June 4 » World War I: Russia opens the Brusilov Offensive with an artillery barrage of Austro-Hungarian lines in Galicia.
August 2 » World War I: Austrian sabotage causes the sinking of the Italian battleship Leonardo da Vinci in Taranto.
November 18 » World War I: First Battle of the Somme: In France, British Expeditionary Force commander Douglas Haig calls off the battle which started on July 1, 1916.
December 6 » World War I: The Central Powers capture Bucharest.
December 23 » World War I: Battle of Magdhaba: Allied forces defeat Turkish forces in the Sinai Peninsula.
Day of marriage August 30, 1937
The temperature on August 30, 1937 was between 10.9 °C and 22.6 °C and averaged 16.8 °C. There was 8.4 hours of sunshine (61%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
April 9 » The Kamikaze arrives at Croydon Airport in London. It is the first Japanese-built aircraft to fly to Europe.
April 26 » Spanish Civil War: Guernica, Spain, is bombed by German Luftwaffe.
August 1 » Josip Broz Tito reads the resolution "Manifesto of constitutional congress of KPH" to the constitutive congress of KPH (Croatian Communist Party) in woods near Samobor.
September 10 » Nine nations attend the Nyon Conference to address international piracy in the Mediterranean Sea.
September 21 » J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit is published.
September 22 » Spanish Civil War: Peña Blanca is taken, ending the Battle of El Mazuco.
Day of death October 15, 1950
The temperature on October 15, 1950 was between 4.8 °C and 15.4 °C and averaged 10.1 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 5.9 hours of sunshine (55%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. Source: KNMI
From August 7, 1948 till March 15, 1951 the Netherlands had a cabinet Drees - Van Schaik with the prime ministers Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) and Mr. J.R.H. van Schaik (KVP).
January 17 » The Great Brink's Robbery: Eleven thieves steal more than $2 million from an armored car company's offices in Boston.
June 1 » The Chinchaga fire ignites. By September, it would become the largest single fire on record in North America.
June 25 » The Korean War begins with the invasion of South Korea by North Korea.
June 28 » Korean War: Packed with its own refugees fleeing Seoul and leaving their 5th Division stranded, South Korean forces blow up the Hangang Bridge in an attempt to slow North Korea's offensive. The city falls later that day.
August 1 » Guam is organized as a United States commonwealth as the President Harry S. Truman signs the Guam Organic Act.
December 25 » The Stone of Scone, traditional coronation stone of British monarchs, is taken from Westminster Abbey by Scottish nationalist students. It later turns up in Scotland on April 11, 1951.
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