The temperature on August 28, 1905 was between 11.8 °C and 15.6 °C and averaged 13.3 °C. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from August 1, 1901 to August 16, 1905 the cabinet Kuijper, with Dr. A. Kuijper (AR) as prime minister.
In The Netherlands , there was from August 17, 1905 to February 11, 1908 the cabinet De Meester, with Mr. Th. de Meester (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
January 22 » Bloody Sunday in Saint Petersburg, beginning of the 1905 revolution.
May 15 » Las Vegas is founded when 110 acres (0.45km), in what later would become downtown, are auctioned off.
May 27 » Russo-Japanese War: The Battle of Tsushima begins.
August 13 » Norwegians vote to end the union with Sweden.
September 8 » The 7.2 Mw Calabria earthquake shakes southern Italy with a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme), killing between 557 and 2,500 people.
October 30 » Czar Nicholas II issues the October Manifesto, granting the Russian peoples basic civil liberties and the right to form a duma. (October 17 in the Julian calendar)
Day of marriage August 8, 1947
The temperature on August 8, 1947 was between 11.1 °C and 21.2 °C and averaged 15.7 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 5.8 hours of sunshine (38%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. Source: KNMI
January 1 » Cold War: The American and British occupation zones in Allied-occupied Germany, after World War II, merge to form the Bizone, which later (with the French zone) became part of West Germany.
May 31 » Ferenc Nagy, the democratically elected Prime Minister of Hungary, resigns from office after blackmail from the Hungarian Communist Party accusing him of being part of a plot against the state. This grants the Communists effective control of the Hungarian government.
July 19 » Prime Minister of the shadow Burmese government, Bogyoke Aung San and eight others are assassinated.
August 17 » The Radcliffe Line, the border between the Dominions of India and Pakistan, is revealed.
September 9 » First case of a computer bug being found: A moth lodges in a relay of a Harvard Mark II computer at Harvard University.
September 30 » Pakistan joins the United Nations.
Day of death October 2, 1965
The temperature on October 2, 1965 was between 9.0 °C and 16.4 °C and averaged 12.3 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 0.2 hours. There was 2.3 hours of sunshine (20%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
January 1 » The People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan is founded in Kabul, Afghanistan.
February 18 » The Gambia becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
March 8 » Thirty-five hundred United States Marines are the first American land combat forces committed during the Vietnam War.
July 16 » The Mont Blanc Tunnel linking France and Italy opens.
September 9 » Hurricane Betsy makes its second landfall near New Orleans, leaving 76 dead and $1.42 billion ($10–12 billion in 2005 dollars) in damages, becoming the first hurricane to cause over $1 billion in unadjusted damage.
November 9 » A Catholic Worker Movement member, Roger Allen LaPorte, protesting against the Vietnam War, sets himself on fire in front of the United Nations building.
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