The temperature on March 5, 1916 was between -2.1 °C and 7.5 °C and averaged 1.7 °C. There was 3.0 mm of rain. There was 4.7 hours of sunshine (42%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) 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.
June 1 » Louis Brandeis becomes the first Jew appointed to the United States Supreme Court.
June 24 » Mary Pickford becomes the first female film star to sign a million-dollar contract.
August 5 » World War I: Battle of Romani: Allied forces, under the command of Archibald Murray, defeat an attacking Ottoman army under the command of Friedrich Freiherr Kress von Kressenstein, securing the Suez Canal and beginning the Ottoman retreat from the Sinai Peninsula.
August 25 » The United States National Park Service is created.
November 7 » Boston Elevated Railway Company's streetcar No. 393 smashes through the warning gates of the open Summer Street drawbridge in Boston, Massachusetts, plunging into the frigid waters of Fort Point Channel, killing 46 people.
November 30 » Costa Rica signs the Buenos Aires Convention, a copyright treaty.
Day of marriage February 18, 1947
The temperature on February 18, 1947 was between -10.1 °C and -3.4 °C and averaged -7.1 °C. There was 8.2 hours of sunshine (81%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. Source: KNMI
January 3 » Proceedings of the U.S. Congress are televised for the first time.
February 12 » The largest observed iron meteorite until that time creates an impact crater in Sikhote-Alin, in the Soviet Union.
April 9 » The Journey of Reconciliation, the first interracial Freedom Ride begins through the upper South in violation of Jim Crow laws. The riders wanted enforcement of the United States Supreme Court's 1946 Irene Morgan decision that banned racial segregation in interstate travel.
April 16 » An explosion on board a freighter in port causes the city of Texas City, Texas, to catch fire, killing almost 600.
April 16 » Bernard Baruch first applies the term "Cold War" to describe the relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union.
July 19 » Prime Minister of the shadow Burmese government, Bogyoke Aung San and eight others are assassinated.
Day of death July 14, 2006
The temperature on July 14, 2006 was between 12.6 °C and 22.7 °C and averaged 17.6 °C. There was 14.7 hours of sunshine (90%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, May 27, 2003 to Friday, July 7, 2006 the cabinet Balkenende II, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
In The Netherlands , there was from Friday, July 7, 2006 to Thursday, February 22, 2007 the cabinet Balkenende III, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
January 25 » Mexican professional wrestler Juana Barraza is arrested in connection with the serial killing of at least ten elderly women.
February 6 » Stephen Harper becomes Prime Minister of Canada.
May 12 » Mass unrest by the Primeiro Comando da Capital begins in São Paulo (Brazil), leaving at least 150 dead.
July 11 » Mumbai train bombings: Two hundred nine people are killed in a series of bomb attacks in Mumbai, India.
July 31 » Fidel Castro hands over power to his brother, Raúl.
November 5 » Saddam Hussein, former president of Iraq, and his co-defendants Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti and Awad Hamed al-Bandar, are sentenced to death in the al-Dujail trial for their roles in the 1982 massacre of 148 Shi'a Muslims.
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