The temperature on December 13, 1915 was between -0.2 °C and 3.7 °C and averaged 1.7 °C. There was 5.3 mm of rain. There was 2.5 hours of sunshine (32%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-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 19 » German strategic bombing during World War I: German zeppelins bomb the towns of Great Yarmouth and King's Lynn in the United Kingdom killing at least 20 people, in the first major aerial bombardment of a civilian target.
January 21 » Kiwanis International is founded in Detroit.
July 7 » Colombo Town Guard officer Henry Pedris is executed in British Ceylon for allegedly inciting persecution of Muslims.
August 6 » World War I: Battle of Sari Bair: The Allies mount a diversionary attack timed to coincide with a major Allied landing of reinforcements at Suvla Bay.
August 15 » A story in New York World newspaper reveals that the Imperial German government had purchased excess phenol from Thomas Edison that could be used to make explosives for the war effort and diverted it to Bayer for aspirin production.
September 25 » World War I: The Second Battle of Champagne begins.
Day of death August 24, 1967
The temperature on August 24, 1967 was between 12.7 °C and 23.3 °C and averaged 17.8 °C. There was 12.0 hours of sunshine (85%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the ??. Source: KNMI
January 18 » Albert DeSalvo, the "Boston Strangler", is convicted of numerous crimes and is sentenced to life imprisonment.
July 6 » Nigerian Civil War: Nigerian forces invade Biafra, beginning the war.
July 24 » During an official state visit to Canada, French President Charles de Gaulle declares to a crowd of over 100,000 in Montreal: Vive le Québec libre! ("Long live free Quebec!"); the statement angered the Canadian government and many Anglophone Canadians.
October 10 » The Outer Space Treaty comes into force.
November 14 » American physicist Theodore Maiman is given a patent for his ruby laser systems, the world's first laser.
December 19 » Harold Holt, the Prime Minister of Australia, is officially presumed dead.
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