The temperature on August 16, 1915 was between 8.8 °C and 19.5 °C and averaged 14.3 °C. There was 1.3 mm of rain. There was 5.3 hours of sunshine (36%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west. 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 19 » Georges Claude patents the neon discharge tube for use in advertising.
May 27 » HMS Princess Irene exploded and sank off Sheerness, Kent with the loss of 352 lives.
June 5 » Denmark amends its constitution to allow women's suffrage.
July 1 » Leutnant Kurt Wintgens of the then-named German Deutsches Heer's Fliegertruppe army air service achieves the first known aerial victory with a synchronized machine-gun armed fighter plane, the Fokker M.5K/MG Eindecker.
July 24 » The passenger ship SSEastland capsizes while tied to a dock in the Chicago River. A total of 844 passengers and crew are killed in the largest loss of life disaster from a single shipwreck on the Great Lakes.
September 12 » French soldiers rescue over 4,000 Armenian Genocide survivors stranded on Musa Dagh.
Day of marriage October 16, 1946
The temperature on October 16, 1946 was between 8.1 °C and 13.1 °C and averaged 10.2 °C. There was 1.0 hours of sunshine (9%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest. Source: KNMI
From June 24, 1945 till July 3, 1946 the Netherlands had a cabinet Schermerhorn - Drees with the prime ministers Prof. ir. W. Schermerhorn (VDB) and W. Drees (PvdA).
In The Netherlands , there was from July 3, 1946 to August 7, 1948 the cabinet Beel I, with Dr. L.J.M. Beel (KVP) as prime minister.
February 12 » African American United States Army veteran Isaac Woodard is severely beaten by a South Carolina police officer to the point where he loses his vision in both eyes. The incident later galvanizes the civil rights movement and partially inspires Orson Welles' film Touch of Evil.
February 22 » The "Long Telegram", proposing how the United States should deal with the Soviet Union, arrives from the US embassy in Moscow.
March 6 » Ho Chi Minh signs an agreement with France which recognizes Vietnam as an autonomous state in the Indochinese Federation and the French Union.
June 23 » The 1946 Vancouver Island earthquake strikes Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.
October 1 » Nazi leaders are sentenced at the Nuremberg trials.
October 16 » Nuremberg trials: Ten defendants found guilty by the International Military Tribunal are executed by hanging.
Day of death October 10, 1994
The temperature on October 10, 1994 was between 3.1 °C and 15.6 °C and averaged 9.2 °C. There was 7.2 hours of sunshine (65%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. 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.
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.
January 6 » American figure skater Nancy Kerrigan is attacked and injured by an assailant hired by her rival Tonya Harding's ex-husband during the U.S. Figure Skating Championships that they were both taking part in.
January 11 » The Irish Government announces the end of a 15-year broadcasting ban on the IRA and its political arm Sinn Féin.
February 22 » Aldrich Ames and his wife are charged by the United States Department of Justice with spying for the Soviet Union.
April 28 » Former Central Intelligence Agency counterintelligence officer and analyst Aldrich Ames pleads guilty to giving U.S. secrets to the Soviet Union and later Russia.
August 12 » Major League Baseball players go on strike, forcing the cancellation of the 1994 World Series.
October 17 » Russian journalist Dmitry Kholodov is assassinated while investigating corruption in the armed forces.
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