The temperature on April 15, 1907 was between 4.5 °C and 16.5 °C and averaged 10.3 °C. There was 7.7 hours of sunshine (56%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east. Source: KNMI
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 14 » An earthquake in Kingston, Jamaica kills more than 1,000 people.
August 9 » The first Boy Scout encampment concludes at Brownsea Island in southern England.
October 9 » Las Cruces, New Mexico is incorporated.
October 21 » The 1907 Qaratog earthquake hits the borders of Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, killing between 12,000 and 15,000 people.
December 14 » The Thomas W. Lawson, the largest ever ship without a heat engine, runs aground and founders near the Hellweather's Reef within the Isles of Scilly in a gale. The pilot and 15 seamen die.
December 17 » Ugyen Wangchuck is crowned first King of Bhutan.
Day of marriage October 3, 1939
The temperature on October 3, 1939 was between 4.6 °C and 14.2 °C and averaged 9.2 °C. There was 8.5 hours of sunshine (74%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from June 24, 1937 to July 25, 1939 the cabinet Colijn IV, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
In The Netherlands , there was from July 25, 1939 to August 10, 1939 the cabinet Colijn V, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
In The Netherlands , there was from August 10, 1939 to September 3, 1940 the cabinet De Geer II, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
March 1 » An Imperial Japanese Army ammunition dump explodes at Hirakata, Osaka, Japan, killing 94.
March 17 » Second Sino-Japanese War: Battle of Nanchang between the Kuomintang and Japan begins.
April 4 » Faisal II becomes King of Iraq.
April 14 » The Grapes of Wrath, by American author John Steinbeck is first published by the Viking Press.
April 30 » NBC inaugurates its regularly scheduled television service in New York City, broadcasting President Franklin D. Roosevelt's N.Y. World's Fair opening day ceremonial address.
August 15 » The Wizard of Oz premieres at Grauman's Chinese Theater in Los Angeles, California.
Day of death October 13, 1983
The temperature on October 13, 1983 was between 8.2 °C and 18.2 °C and averaged 13.5 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 7.1 hours of sunshine (65%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, November 4, 1982 to Monday, July 14, 1986 the cabinet Lubbers I, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
February 23 » The United States Environmental Protection Agency announces its intent to buy out and evacuate the dioxin-contaminated community of Times Beach, Missouri.
March 1 » First collection of twelve Swatch models was introduced in Zürich, Switzerland.
March 2 » Compact discs and players are released for the first time in the United States and other markets. They had previously been available only in Japan.
April 22 » The German magazine Stern claims the "Hitler Diaries" had been found in wreckage in East Germany; the diaries are subsequently revealed to be forgeries.
September 12 » The USSR vetoes a United Nations Security Council Resolution deploring the Soviet destruction of Korean Air Lines Flight 007.
October 25 » The United States and its Caribbean allies invade Grenada, six days after Prime Minister Maurice Bishop and several of his supporters are executed in a coup d'état.
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