The temperature on September 9, 1920 was between 5.7 °C and 19.7 °C and averaged 12.6 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. There was 8.3 hours of sunshine (63%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from September 9, 1918 to September 18, 1922 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck I, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
March 8 » The Arab Kingdom of Syria, the first modern Arab state to come into existence, is established.
March 13 » The Kapp Putsch briefly ousts the Weimar Republic government from Berlin.
May 7 » Kiev Offensive: Polish troops led by Józef Piłsudski and Edward Rydz-Śmigły and assisted by a symbolic Ukrainian force capture Kiev only to be driven out by the Red Army counter-offensive a month later.
September 1 » The Fountain of Time opens as a tribute to the 100 years of peace between the United States and Great Britain following the Treaty of Ghent.
September 16 » The Wall Street bombing: A bomb in a horse wagon explodes in front of the J. P. Morgan building in New York City killing 38 and injuring 400.
December 22 » The GOELRO economic development plan is adopted by the 8th Congress of Soviets of the Russian SFSR.
Day of death September 25, 1979
The temperature on September 25, 1979 was between 2.1 °C and 17.1 °C and averaged 10.9 °C. There was 7.6 hours of sunshine (63%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, December 19, 1977 to Friday, September 11, 1981 the cabinet Van Agt I, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA/KVP) as prime minister.
July 9 » A car bomb destroys a Renault motor car owned by "Nazi hunters" Serge and Beate Klarsfeld outside their home in France in an unsuccessful assassination attempt.
July 11 » America's first space station, Skylab, is destroyed as it re-enters the Earth's atmosphere over the Indian Ocean.
July 12 » The island nation of Kiribati becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
July 21 » Jay Silverheels, a Mohawk actor, becomes the first Native American to have a star commemorated in the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
September 13 » South Africa grants independence to the "homeland" of Venda (not recognised outside South Africa).
October 31 » Western Airlines Flight 2605 crashes on landing in Mexico City, killing 73 people.
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