The temperature on December 14, 1916 was between -0.2 °C and 3.5 °C and averaged 1.9 °C. There was 0.9 mm of rain. There was 0.3 hours of sunshine (4%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. 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 9 » World War I: The Battle of Gallipoli concludes with an Ottoman Empire victory when the last Allied forces are evacuated from the peninsula.
January 12 » Both Oswald Boelcke and Max Immelmann, for achieving eight aerial victories each over Allied aircraft, receive the German Empire's highest military award, the Pour le Mérite as the first German aviators to earn it.
February 27 » Ocean liner SS Maloja strikes a mine near Dover and sinks with the loss of 155 lives.
April 24 » Ernest Shackleton and five men of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition launch a lifeboat from uninhabited Elephant Island in the Southern Ocean to organise a rescue for the crew of the sunken Endurance.
June 29 » British diplomat turned Irish nationalist Roger Casement is sentenced to death for his part in the Easter Rising.
September 8 » In a bid to prove that women were capable of serving as military dispatch riders, Augusta and Adeline Van Buren arrive in Los Angeles, completing a 60-day, 5,500 mile cross-country trip on motorcycles.
Day of death November 12, 1989
The temperature on November 12, 1989 was between 1.1 °C and 14.0 °C and averaged 6.3 °C. There was 7.4 hours of sunshine (82%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, November 4, 1986 to Tuesday, November 7, 1989 the cabinet Lubbers II, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
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.
August 2 » Pakistan is re-admitted to the Commonwealth of Nations after having restored democracy for the first time since 1972.
August 24 » Cincinnati Reds manager Pete Rose is banned from baseball for gambling by Commissioner A. Bartlett Giamatti.
September 14 » The Standard Gravure shooting where Joseph T. Wesbecker, a 47-year old pressman, killed 8 people and injured 12 people at his former workplace, Standard Gravure, before committing suicide.
November 9 » Cold War: Fall of the Berlin Wall: East Germany opens checkpoints in the Berlin Wall, allowing its citizens to travel to West Berlin.
December 16 » U.S. Appeals Court Judge Robert Smith Vance is assassinated by a mail bomb sent by Walter Leroy Moody, Jr.
December 20 » The United States invasion of Panama deposes Manuel Noriega.
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