The temperature on March 15, 1917 was between -2.3 °C and 5.4 °C and averaged 0.5 °C. There was 7.0 hours of sunshine (59%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north. 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 17 » The United States pays Denmark $25 million for the Virgin Islands.
March 8 » The United States Senate votes to limit filibusters by adopting the cloture rule.
April 16 » Vladimir Lenin returns to Petrograd, Russia, from exile in Switzerland.
October 12 » World War I: The First Battle of Passchendaele takes place resulting in the largest single-day loss of life in New Zealand history.
November 24 » In Milwaukee, nine members of the Milwaukee Police Department are killed by a bomb, the most deaths in a single event in U.S. police history until the September 11 attacks in 2001.
December 12 » Father Edward J. Flanagan founds Boys Town as a farm village for wayward boys.
Day of marriage October 19, 1949
The temperature on October 19, 1949 was between 10.5 °C and 16.4 °C and averaged 13.4 °C. There was 2.2 mm of rain during 1.8 hours. There was 3.6 hours of sunshine (34%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
From August 7, 1948 till March 15, 1951 the Netherlands had a cabinet Drees - Van Schaik with the prime ministers Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) and Mr. J.R.H. van Schaik (KVP).
February 19 » Ezra Pound is awarded the first Bollingen Prize in poetry by the Bollingen Foundation and Yale University.
March 8 » President of France Vincent Auriol and ex-emperor of Annam Bảo Đại sign the Élysée Accords, giving Vietnam greater independence from France and creating the State of Vietnam to oppose Viet Minh-led Democratic Republic of Vietnam.
March 25 » More than 92,000 kulaks are suddenly deported from the Baltic states to Siberia.
May 12 » Cold War: The Soviet Union lifts its blockade of Berlin.
July 21 » The United States Senate ratifies the North Atlantic Treaty.
August 10 » An amendment to the National Security Act of 1947 enhances the authority of the United States Secretary of Defense over the Army, Navy and Air Force, and replaces the National Military Establishment with the Department of Defense.
Day of death December 18, 1991
The temperature on December 18, 1991 was between 4.9 °C and 9.0 °C and averaged 6.7 °C. There was 6.6 mm of rain during 2.4 hours. There was 2.4 hours of sunshine (31%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, November 7, 1989 to Monday, August 22, 1994 the cabinet Lubbers III, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
April 2 » Rita Johnston becomes the first female Premier of a Canadian province when she succeeds William Vander Zalm (who had resigned) as Premier of British Columbia.
June 20 » German Bundestag votes to move seat of government from the former West German capital of Bonn to the present capital Berlin.
September 17 » Estonia, North Korea, South Korea, Latvia, Lithuania, the Marshall Islands and Micronesia join the United Nations.
October 17 » 1991 Rudrapur bombings by Sikh separatists, who exploded two bombs, during a Ramlila Hindu celebration in Rudrapur, Uttarakhand, killing 41 people.
December 16 » Kazakhstan declares independence from the Soviet Union.
December 31 » All official Soviet Union institutions have ceased operations by this date five days after the Soviet Union is officially dissolved.
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