The temperature on November 14, 1915 was between 0.2 °C and 5.0 °C and averaged 2.1 °C. There was 14.6 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. 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.
January 22 » Over 600 people are killed in Guadalajara, Mexico, when a train plunges off the tracks into a deep canyon.
February 8 » D. W. Griffith's controversial film The Birth of a Nation premieres in Los Angeles.
May 27 » HMS Princess Irene exploded and sank off Sheerness, Kent with the loss of 352 lives.
August 15 » A story in New York World newspaper reveals that the Imperial German government had purchased excess phenol from Thomas Edison that could be used to make explosives for the war effort and diverted it to Bayer for aspirin production.
August 17 » Jewish American Leo Frank is lynched in Marietta, Georgia after a 13-year-old girl is murdered.
September 12 » French soldiers rescue over 4,000 Armenian Genocide survivors stranded on Musa Dagh.
Day of marriage July 25, 1940
The temperature on July 25, 1940 was between 10.4 °C and 20.2 °C and averaged 15.5 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain during 0.3 hours. There was 11.6 hours of sunshine (73%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. 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 9 » World War II: The German submarine U-9 sinks the French coastal submarine Doris near Den Helder.
May 14 » World War II: Rotterdam, Netherlands is bombed by the Luftwaffe of Nazi Germany despite a ceasefire, killing about 900 people and destroying the historic city center.
June 14 » World War II: The German occupation of Paris begins.
September 18 » World War II: The British liner SSCity of Benares is sunk by German submarine U-48; those killed include 77 child refugees.
November 11 » World War II: The German auxiliary cruiser Atlantis captures top secret British mail from the Automedon, and sends it to Japan.
November 12 » World War II: The Battle of Gabon ends as Free French Forces take Libreville, Gabon, and all of French Equatorial Africa from Vichy French forces.
Day of death April 19, 2000
The temperature on April 19, 2000 was between 5.2 °C and 18.0 °C and averaged 11.9 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 7.7 hours of sunshine (55%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
January 3 » Final daily edition of the Peanuts comic strip.
February 14 » The spacecraft NEAR Shoemaker enters orbit around asteroid 433 Eros, the first spacecraft to orbit an asteroid.
April 3 » United States v. Microsoft Corp.: Microsoft is ruled to have violated United States antitrust law by keeping "an oppressive thumb" on its competitors.
May 7 » Vladimir Putin is inaugurated as president of Russia.
May 17 » Arsenal and Galatasaray fans clash in the 2000 UEFA Cup Final riots in Copenhagen
June 26 » The Human Genome Project announces the completion of a "rough draft" sequence.
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