The temperature on August 16, 1912 was between 12.3 °C and 17.5 °C and averaged 14.4 °C. There was 0.7 mm of rain. There was 1.4 hours of sunshine (10%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
January 11 » Immigrant textile workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts, go on strike when wages are reduced in response to a mandated shortening of the work week.
February 12 » The Xuantong Emperor, the last Emperor of China, abdicates.
March 6 » Italo-Turkish War: Italian forces become the first to use airships in war, as two dirigibles drop bombs on Turkish troops encamped at Janzur, from an altitude of 6,000 feet.
April 16 » Harriet Quimby becomes the first woman to fly an airplane across the English Channel.
September 28 » The Ulster Covenant is signed by some 500,000 Ulster Protestant Unionists in opposition to the Third Irish Home Rule Bill.
November 5 » Woodrow Wilson is elected the 28th President of the United States, defeating incumbent William Howard Taft.
Day of marriage May 26, 1945
The temperature on May 26, 1945 was between 9.5 °C and 12.5 °C and averaged 10.8 °C. There was 12.0 mm of rain during 6.6 hours. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from July 27, 1941 to February 23, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy II, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
In The Netherlands , there was from February 23, 1945 to June 24, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy III, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
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).
January 1 » World War II: The German Luftwaffe launches Operation Bodenplatte, a massive, but failed attempt to knock out Allied air power in northern Europe in a single blow.
January 31 » US Army private Eddie Slovik is executed for desertion, the first such execution of an American soldier since the Civil War.
February 4 » World War II: The Yalta Conference between the "Big Three" (Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin) opens at the Livadia Palace in the Crimea.
February 13 » World War II: Royal Air Force bombers are dispatched to Dresden, Germany to attack the city with a massive aerial bombardment.
April 13 » World War II: Soviet and Bulgarian forces capture Vienna.
June 5 » The Allied Control Council, the military occupation governing body of Germany, formally takes power.
Day of death March 24, 1996
The temperature on March 24, 1996 was between 3.8 °C and 7.5 °C and averaged 5.8 °C. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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.
February 15 » At the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in China, a Long March 3 rocket, carrying an Intelsat 708, crashes into a rural village after liftoff, killing many people.
July 17 » TWA Flight 800: Off the coast of Long Island, New York, a Paris-bound TWA Boeing 747 explodes, killing all 230 on board.
July 18 » Storms provoke severe flooding on the Saguenay River, beginning one of Quebec's costliest natural disasters ever.
September 24 » Representatives of 71 nations sign the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty at the United Nations.
October 2 » The Electronic Freedom of Information Act Amendments are signed by U.S. President Bill Clinton.
November 7 » NASA launches the Mars Global Surveyor.
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