The temperature on September 21, 1914 was between 6.8 °C and 17.1 °C and averaged 12.1 °C. There was 2.9 mm of rain. There was 7.5 hours of sunshine (61%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-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.
July 11 » Babe Ruth makes his debut in Major League Baseball.
August 26 » World War I: The German colony of Togoland surrenders to French and British forces after a 20-day campaign.
September 3 » French composer Albéric Magnard is killed defending his estate against invading German soldiers.
September 16 » World War I: The Siege of Przemyśl (present-day Poland) begins.
October 27 » First World War: The new British battleship HMS Audacious is sunk by a minefield laid by the armed German merchant-cruiser Berlin.
November 7 » The first issue of The New Republic is published.
Day of marriage March 27, 1941
The temperature on March 27, 1941 was between 1.1 °C and 12.5 °C and averaged 5.9 °C. There was 3.3 mm of rain during 2.0 hours. There was 5.5 hours of sunshine (44%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
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.
In The Netherlands , there was from July 27, 1941 to February 23, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy II, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
March 2 » World War II: First German military units enter Bulgaria after it joins the Axis Pact.
March 29 » The North American Regional Broadcasting Agreement goes into effect at 03:00 local time.
April 15 » In the Belfast Blitz, two-hundred bombers of the German Luftwaffe attack Belfast, killing around one thousand people.
October 9 » A coup in Panama declares Ricardo Adolfo de la Guardia Arango the new president.
November 13 » World War II: The aircraft carrier HMSArk Royal is torpedoed by U-81, sinking the following day.
December 7 » World War II: Attack on Pearl Harbor: The Imperial Japanese Navy carries out a surprise attack on the United States Pacific Fleet and its defending Army and Marine air forces at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. (For Japan's near-simultaneous attacks on Eastern Hemisphere targets, see December 8.)
Day of death December 29, 1999
The temperature on December 29, 1999 was between 0.5 °C and 6.2 °C and averaged 3.2 °C. There was 1.0 mm of rain during 1.2 hours. There was 0.5 hours of sunshine (6%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
February 7 » Crown Prince Abdullah becomes the King of Jordan on the death of his father, King Hussein.
February 11 » Pluto crosses Neptune's orbit, ending a nearly 20-year period when it was closer to the Sun than the gas giant; Pluto is not expected to interact with Neptune's orbit again until 2231.
March 29 » The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above the 10,000 mark (10,006.78) for the first time, during the height of the dot-com bubble.
October 12 » The World Population reaches 6 billion.
November 30 » In Seattle, United States, demonstrations against a World Trade Organization meeting by anti-globalization protesters catch police unprepared and force the cancellation of opening ceremonies.
December 24 » Indian Airlines Flight 814 is hijacked in Indian airspace between Kathmandu, Nepal, and Delhi, India. The aircraft landed at Kandahar in Afghanistan. The incident ended on December 31 with the release of 190 survivors (one passenger is killed).
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