The temperature on October 8, 1917 was between 7.5 °C and 12.9 °C and averaged 9.5 °C. There was 21.4 mm of rain. There was 0.7 hours of sunshine (6%). 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.
February 5 » The Congress of the United States passes the Immigration Act of 1917 over President Woodrow Wilson's veto.
March 25 » The Georgian Orthodox Church restores its autocephaly abolished by Imperial Russia in 1811.
April 16 » Vladimir Lenin returns to Petrograd, Russia, from exile in Switzerland.
October 15 » World War I: Dutch dancer Mata Hari is executed by France for espionage.
November 8 » The first Council of People's Commissars is formed, including Vladimir Lenin, Leon Trotsky and Joseph Stalin.
December 6 » World War I: USSJacob Jones is the first American destroyer to be sunk by enemy action when it is torpedoed by German submarine SMU-53.
Day of marriage June 12, 1938
The temperature on June 12, 1938 was between 5.8 °C and 18.4 °C and averaged 12.4 °C. There was 11.0 hours of sunshine (66%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. Source: KNMI
February 11 » BBC Television produces the world's first ever science fiction television programme, an adaptation of a section of the Karel Čapek play R.U.R., that coined the term "robot".
October 5 » In Nazi Germany, Jews' passports are invalidated.
October 10 » Abiding by the Munich Agreement, Czechoslovakia completes its withdrawal from the Sudetenland.
October 14 » The first flight of the Curtiss P-40 Warhawk fighter plane.
November 1 » Seabiscuit defeats War Admiral in an upset victory during a match race deemed "the match of the century" in horse racing.
November 16 » LSD is first synthesized by Albert Hofmann from ergotamine at the Sandoz Laboratories in Basel.
Day of death March 6, 2013
The temperature on March 6, 2013 was between 4.8 °C and 16.8 °C and averaged 11.2 °C. There was 1.8 hours of sunshine (16%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, November 5, 2012 to Thursday, October 26, 2017 the cabinet Rutte II, with Mark Rutte (VVD) as prime minister.
January 1 » At least 60 people are killed and 200 injured in a stampede after celebrations at Félix Houphouët-Boigny Stadium in Abidjan, Ivory Coast.
February 27 » A shooting takes place at a factory in Menznau, Switzerland, in which five people (including the perpetrator) are killed and five others injured.
March 19 » A series of bombings and shootings kills at least 98 people and injures 240 others across Iraq.
April 9 » At least 13 people are killed and another three injured after a man goes on a spree shooting in the Serbian village of Velika Ivanča.
July 7 » A De Havilland Otter air taxi crashes in Soldotna, Alaska, killing ten people.
July 13 » Typhoon Soulik kills at least nine people and affects more than 160million in East China and Taiwan.
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