The temperature on March 21, 1909 was between 5.1 °C and 10.9 °C and averaged 7.3 °C. There was 2.4 mm of rain. There was 1.8 hours of sunshine (15%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
February 26 » Kinemacolor, the first successful color motion picture process, is first shown to the general public at the Palace Theatre in London.
April 9 » The U.S. Congress passes the Payne–Aldrich Tariff Act.
June 2 » Alfred Deakin becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the third time.
August 24 » Workers start pouring concrete for the Panama Canal.
August 30 » Burgess Shale fossils are discovered by Charles Doolittle Walcott.
September 20 » The South Africa Act 1909 creates the Union of South Africa from the British Colonies from four smaller colonies.
Day of marriage July 1, 1939
The temperature on July 1, 1939 was between 10.5 °C and 18.3 °C and averaged 13.8 °C. There was 13.7 mm of rain during 5.3 hours. There was 1.9 hours of sunshine (11%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from June 24, 1937 to July 25, 1939 the cabinet Colijn IV, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
In The Netherlands , there was from July 25, 1939 to August 10, 1939 the cabinet Colijn V, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
In The Netherlands , there was from August 10, 1939 to September 3, 1940 the cabinet De Geer II, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
March 3 » In Bombay, Mohandas Gandhi begins a hunger strike in protest at the autocratic rule in British India.
May 3 » The All India Forward Bloc is formed by Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose.
May 23 » The U.S. Navy submarine USS Squalus sinks off the coast of New Hampshire during a test dive, causing the death of 24 sailors and two civilian technicians. The remaining 32 sailors and one civilian naval architect are rescued the following day.
June 12 » The Baseball Hall of Fame opens in Cooperstown, New York.
August 23 » World War II: Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union sign a non-aggression treaty, the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact. In a secret addition to the pact, the Baltic states, Finland, Romania, and Poland are divided between the two nations.
November 8 » In Munich, Adolf Hitler narrowly escapes the assassination attempt of Georg Elser while celebrating the 16th anniversary of the Beer Hall Putsch.
Day of death January 16, 1998
The temperature on January 16, 1998 was between 5.2 °C and 8.2 °C and averaged 6.8 °C. There was 0.6 mm of rain during 0.9 hours. There was 0.3 hours of sunshine (4%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, August 22, 1994 to Monday, August 3, 1998 the cabinet a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabinet-Kok_I" class="extern">Kok I, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, August 3, 1998 to Monday, July 22, 2002 the cabinet Kok II, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
January 25 » A suicide attack by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam on Sri Lanka's Temple of the Tooth kills eight and injures 25 others.
February 14 » An oil tanker train collides with a freight train in Yaoundé, Cameroon, spilling fuel oil. One person scavenging the oil created a massive explosion which killed 120.
March 24 » A tornado sweeps through Dantan in India, killing 250 people and injuring 3,000 others.
May 21 » President Suharto of Indonesia resigns following the killing of students from Trisakti University earlier that week by security forces and growing mass protests in Jakarta against his ongoing corrupt rule.
May 27 » Oklahoma City bombing: Michael Fortier is sentenced to 12 years in prison and fined $200,000 for failing to warn authorities about the terrorist plot.
August 30 » Second Congo War: Armed forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and their Angolan and Zimbabwean allies recapture Matadi and the Inga dams in the western DRC from RCD and Rwandan troops.
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