The temperature on August 25, 1905 was between 5.7 °C and 20.9 °C and averaged 14.6 °C. There was 7.5 hours of sunshine (53%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. 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.
August 10 » Russo-Japanese War: Peace negotiations begin in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
September 26 » Albert Einstein publishes the third of his Annus Mirabilis papers, introducing the special theory of relativity.
October 26 » King Oscar II recognizes the dissolution of the union between Norway and Sweden.
November 18 » Prince Carl of Denmark becomes King Haakon VII of Norway.
November 21 » Albert Einstein's paper that leads to the mass–energy equivalence formula, E=mc², is published in the journal Annalen der Physik.
Day of marriage October 4, 1927
The temperature on October 4, 1927 was between 1.4 °C and 15.2 °C and averaged 8.1 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 5.8 hours of sunshine (51%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. Source: KNMI
May 4 » The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is incorporated.
May 26 » The last Ford Model T rolls off the assembly line after a production run of 15,007,003 vehicles.
June 13 » Aviator Charles Lindbergh receives a ticker tape parade down 5th Avenue in New York City.
November 13 » The Holland Tunnel opens to traffic as the first Hudson River vehicle tunnel linking New Jersey to New York City.
November 21 » Columbine Mine massacre: Striking coal miners are allegedly attacked with machine guns by a detachment of state police dressed in civilian clothes.
December 30 » The Ginza Line, the first subway line in Asia, opens in Tokyo, Japan.
Day of death August 20, 1997
The temperature on August 20, 1997 was between 13.6 °C and 26.9 °C and averaged 20.7 °C. There was 7.8 hours of sunshine (54%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, August 22, 1994 to Monday, August 3, 1998 the cabinet a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabinet-Kok_I" class="extern">Kok I, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
March 26 » Thirty-nine bodies are found in the Heaven's Gate mass suicides.
April 22 » Haouch Khemisti massacre in Algeria where 93 villagers are killed.
May 25 » A military coup in Sierra Leone replaces President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah with Major Johnny Paul Koroma.
August 3 » The tallest free-standing structure in the Southern Hemisphere, Sky Tower in downtown Auckland, New Zealand, opens after two-and-a-half years of construction.
October 4 » The second largest cash robbery in U.S. history occurs in North Carolina
October 25 » After a civil war, Denis Sassou Nguesso proclaims himself President of the Republic of the Congo.
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