The temperature on March 17, 1885 was about 10.5 °C. The air pressure was 18 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 57%. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from April 23, 1884 to April 21, 1888 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief) as prime minister.
January 3 » Sino-French War: Beginning of the Battle of Núi Bop
March 19 » Louis Riel declares a provisional government in Saskatchewan, beginning the North-West Rebellion.
May 2 » Cree and Assiniboine warriors win the Battle of Cut Knife, their largest victory over Canadian forces during the North-West Rebellion.
July 1 » The Congo Free State is established by King Leopold II of Belgium.
July 23 » President Ulysses S. Grant dies of throat cancer.
November 19 » Serbo-Bulgarian War: Bulgarian victory in the Battle of Slivnitsa solidifies the unification between the Principality of Bulgaria and Eastern Rumelia.
Day of marriage September 16, 1916
The temperature on September 16, 1916 was between 9.0 °C and 15.9 °C and averaged 11.9 °C. There was 2.0 mm of rain. There was 3.6 hours of sunshine (28%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-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.
January 12 » Both Oswald Boelcke and Max Immelmann, for achieving eight aerial victories each over Allied aircraft, receive the German Empire's highest military award, the Pour le Mérite as the first German aviators to earn it.
January 27 » World War I: The British government passed a legislation that introduced conscription in the United Kingdom.
April 29 » World War I: The UK's 6th Indian Division surrenders to Ottoman Forces at the Siege of Kut in one of the largest surrenders of British forces up to that point.
August 2 » World War I: Austrian sabotage causes the sinking of the Italian battleship Leonardo da Vinci in Taranto.
November 19 » Samuel Goldwyn and Edgar Selwyn establish Goldwyn Pictures.
December 30 » Russian mystic and advisor to the Tsar Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin was murdered by a loyalist group led by Prince Felix Yusupov. His frozen, partially-trussed body was discovered in a Moscow river three days later.
Day of death January 5, 1971
The temperature on January 5, 1971 was between -14.0 °C and -6.3 °C and averaged -9.0 °C. There was 5.1 hours of sunshine (65%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. Source: KNMI
January 1 » Cigarette advertisements are banned on American television.
February 5 » Astronauts land on the moon in the Apollo 14 mission.
July 12 » The Australian Aboriginal Flag is flown for the first time.
September 3 » Qatar becomes an independent state.
November 24 » During a severe thunderstorm over Washington state, a hijacker calling himself Dan Cooper (aka D. B. Cooper) parachutes from a Northwest Orient Airlines plane with $200,000 in ransom money. He has never been found.
December 7 » The Battle of Sylhet is fought between the Pakistani military and the Mukti Bahini.
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