The temperature on March 20, 1918 was between 2.5 °C and 10.6 °C and averaged 6.5 °C. There was 4.0 mm of rain. There was 2.7 hours of sunshine (22%). 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.
In The Netherlands , there was from September 9, 1918 to September 18, 1922 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck I, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
February 25 » German forces capture Tallinn to virtually complete the occupation of Estonia.
May 14 » Cape Town Mayor, Sir Harry Hands, inaugurates the Two-minute silence.
July 15 » World War I: The Second Battle of the Marne begins near the River Marne with a German attack.
August 21 » World War I: The Second Battle of the Somme begins.
November 9 » Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany abdicates after the German Revolution, and Germany is proclaimed a Republic.
November 25 » Vojvodina, formerly Austro-Hungarian crown land, proclaims its secession from Austria–Hungary to join the Kingdom of Serbia.
Day of death February 1, 1919
The temperature on February 1, 1919 was between -7.7 °C and -4.5 °C and averaged -6.0 °C. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from September 9, 1918 to September 18, 1922 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck I, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
January 7 » Montenegrin guerrilla fighters rebel against the planned annexation of Montenegro by Serbia, but fail.
February 14 » The Polish–Soviet War begins.
February 26 » President Woodrow Wilson signs an act of Congress establishing the Grand Canyon National Park.
April 16 » Mohandas Gandhi organizes a day of "prayer and fasting" in response to the killing of Indian protesters in the Jallianwala Bagh massacre by the British colonial troops three days earlier.
May 27 » The NC-4 aircraft arrives in Lisbon after completing the first transatlantic flight.
June 2 » Anarchists simultaneously set off bombs in eight separate U.S. cities.
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