The temperature on August 18, 1915 was between 12.0 °C and 19.8 °C and averaged 15.1 °C. There was 1.2 mm of rain. There was 5.1 hours of sunshine (35%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest. 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.
April 5 » Boxing challenger Jess Willard knocks out Jack Johnson in Havana, Cuba to become the Heavyweight Champion of the World.
May 23 » World War I: Italy joins the Allies, fulfilling its part of the Treaty of London.
July 1 » Leutnant Kurt Wintgens of the then-named German Deutsches Heer's Fliegertruppe army air service achieves the first known aerial victory with a synchronized machine-gun armed fighter plane, the Fokker M.5K/MG Eindecker.
July 7 » The First Battle of the Isonzo comes to an end.
August 29 » US Navy salvage divers raise F-4, the first U.S. submarine sunk in an accident.
October 13 » First World War: The Battle of the Hohenzollern Redoubt marks the end of the Battle of Loos.
Day of marriage January 23, 1940
The temperature on January 23, 1940 was between -9 °C and 3.3 °C and averaged -1.9 °C. There was 1.1 mm of rain during 2.4 hours. There was 1.5 hours of sunshine (17%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
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.
In The Netherlands , there was from September 3, 1940 to July 27, 1941 the cabinet Gerbrandy I, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
May 6 » John Steinbeck is awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his novel The Grapes of Wrath.
May 13 » World War II: Germany's conquest of France begins as the German army crosses the Meuse. Winston Churchill makes his "blood, toil, tears, and sweat" speech to the House of Commons.
June 10 » World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt denounces Italy's actions in his "Stab in the Back" speech at the graduation ceremonies of the University of Virginia.
July 3 » World War II: The Royal Navy attacks the French naval squadron in Algeria, to ensure that it will not fall under German control. Of the four French battleships present, one is sunk, two are damaged, and one escapes back to France.
November 20 » World War II: Hungary becomes a signatory of the Tripartite Pact, officially joining the Axis powers.
November 27 » World War II: At the Battle of Cape Spartivento, the Royal Navy engages the Regia Marina in the Mediterranean Sea.
Day of death May 2, 2001
The temperature on May 2, 2001 was between 6.1 °C and 21.2 °C and averaged 14.0 °C. There was 10.7 hours of sunshine (72%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
February 18 » Sampit conflict: Inter-ethnic violence between Dayaks and Madurese breaks out in Sampit, Central Kalimantan, Indonesia, ultimately resulting in more than 500 deaths and 100,000 Madurese displaced from their homes.
April 25 » Michele Alboreto is killed while testing an Audi R8 at the Lausitzring in Germany.
May 27 » Members of the Islamist separatist group Abu Sayyaf seize twenty hostages from an affluent island resort on Palawan in the Philippines; the hostage crisis would not be resolved until June 2002.
June 1 » Nepalese royal massacre: Crown Prince Dipendra of Nepal shoots and kills several members of his family including his father and mother.
July 21 » At the conclusion of a fireworks display on Okura Beach in Akashi, Hyōgo, Japan, 11 people are killed and more than 120 are injured when a pedestrian footbridge connecting the beach to JR Asagiri Station becomes overcrowded and people leaving the event fall down in a domino effect.
October 15 » NASA's Galileo spacecraft passes within 112 miles of Jupiter's moon Io.
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