The temperature on August 13, 1909 was between 10.1 °C and 21.1 °C and averaged 16.9 °C. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
January 16 » Ernest Shackleton's expedition finds the magnetic South Pole.
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 12 » New Zealand's worst maritime disaster of the 20th century happens when the SSPenguin, an inter-island ferry, sinks and explodes at the entrance to Wellington Harbour.
April 13 » The military of the Ottoman Empire reverses the Ottoman countercoup of 1909 to force the overthrow of Sultan Abdul Hamid II.
August 7 » Alice Huyler Ramsey and three friends become the first women to complete a transcontinental auto trip, taking 59 days to travel from New York, New York to San Francisco, California.
October 26 » An Jung-geun assassinates Japan's Resident-General of Korea.
Day of marriage August 14, 1931
The temperature on August 14, 1931 was between 6.7 °C and 17.2 °C and averaged 13.1 °C. There was 1.6 mm of rain during 0.9 hours. There was 1.9 hours of sunshine (13%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from August 10, 1929 to May 26, 1933 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck III, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
February 3 » The Hawke's Bay earthquake, New Zealand's worst natural disaster, kills 258.
March 3 » The United States adopts The Star-Spangled Banner as its national anthem.
March 5 » The British Raj: Gandhi–Irwin Pact is signed.
May 14 » Five unarmed civilians are killed in the Ådalen shootings, as the Swedish military is called in to deal with protesting workers.
August 24 » Resignation of the United Kingdom's Second Labour Government. Formation of the UK National Government.
October 21 » A secret society in the Imperial Japanese Army launches an abortive coup d'état attempt.
Day of death October 17, 1979
The temperature on October 17, 1979 was between 5.2 °C and 15.2 °C and averaged 10.4 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 4.6 hours of sunshine (43%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, December 19, 1977 to Friday, September 11, 1981 the cabinet Van Agt I, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA/KVP) as prime minister.
March 13 » The New Jewel Movement, headed by Maurice Bishop, ousts the Prime Minister of Grenada, Eric Gairy, in a coup d'état.
April 4 » Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto of Pakistan is executed.
July 15 » U.S. President Jimmy Carter gives his "malaise speech".
October 27 » Saint Vincent and the Grenadines gains its independence from the United Kingdom.
November 14 » Iran hostage crisis: US President Jimmy Carter issues Executive order 12170, freezing all Iranian assets in the United States in response to the hostage crisis.
December 3 » Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini becomes the first Supreme Leader of Iran.
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