The temperature on February 11, 1918 was between 7.3 °C and 9.5 °C and averaged 8.4 °C. There was 2.6 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the west-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.
In The Netherlands , there was from September 9, 1918 to September 18, 1922 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck I, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
February 25 » German forces capture Tallinn to virtually complete the occupation of Estonia.
April 1 » The Royal Air Force is created by the merger of the Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Naval Air Service.
May 14 » Cape Town Mayor, Sir Harry Hands, inaugurates the Two-minute silence.
August 30 » Fanni Kaplan shoots and seriously injures Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin, which along with the assassination of Bolshevik senior official Moisei Uritsky days earlier, prompts the decree for Red Terror.
October 30 » World War I: The Ottoman Empire signs the Armistice of Mudros with the Allies.
November 11 » Józef Piłsudski assumes supreme military power in Poland - symbolic first day of Polish independence.
Day of death February 23, 1962
The temperature on February 23, 1962 was between -2.8 °C and 1.0 °C and averaged -1.1 °C. There was 4.5 hours of sunshine (43%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
January 12 » Vietnam War: Operation Chopper, the first American combat mission in the war, takes place.
July 6 » As a part of Operation Plowshare, the Sedan nuclear test takes place.
September 13 » An appeals court orders the University of Mississippi to admit James Meredith, the first African-American student admitted to the segregated university.
October 27 » By refusing to agree to the firing of a nuclear torpedo at a US warship, Vasily Arkhipov averts nuclear war.
October 28 » Cuban Missile Crisis: Premier Nikita Khrushchev orders the removal of Soviet missiles from Cuba.
December 9 » The Petrified Forest National Park is established in Arizona.
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