The temperature on July 9, 1915 was between 11.8 °C and 19.6 °C and averaged 15.3 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 7.5 hours of sunshine (45%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the 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.
January 18 » Japan issues the "Twenty-One Demands" to the Republic of China in a bid to increase its power in East Asia.
January 31 » World War I: Germany is the first to make large-scale use of poison gas in warfare in the Battle of Bolimów against Russia.
February 8 » D. W. Griffith's controversial film The Birth of a Nation premieres in Los Angeles.
February 22 » World War I: The Imperial German Navy institutes unrestricted submarine warfare.
September 5 » The pacifist Zimmerwald Conference begins.
September 15 » The Empire Picture Theatre (now The New Empire Cinema), the oldest running cinema in mainland Australia, opens in Bowral, New South Wales.
Day of death January 9, 1994
The temperature on January 9, 1994 was between -0.2 °C and 4.1 °C and averaged 2.0 °C. There was 6.6 hours of sunshine (82%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east. 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.
March 23 » Aeroflot Flight 593 crashed into the Kuznetsk Alatau mountain, Kemerovo Oblast, Russia, killing 75.
May 2 » A bus crashes in Gdańsk, Poland killing 32 people.
May 9 » Disappearance of Cleashindra Hall in Pine Bluff, Arkansas.
June 10 » China conducts a nuclear test for DF-31 warhead at Area C (Beishan), Lop Nur, its prominence being due to the Cox Report.
October 21 » North Korea and the United States sign an Agreed Framework that requires North Korea to stop its nuclear weapons program and agree to inspections.
October 29 » Francisco Martin Duran fires over two dozen shots at the White House; he is later convicted of trying to kill US President Bill Clinton.
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