The temperature on June 22, 1914 was between 10.2 °C and 14.4 °C and averaged 12.6 °C. There was 5.9 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. 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.
May 29 » The Ocean liner RMSEmpress of Ireland sinks in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence with the loss of 1,012 lives.
September 3 » World War I: Start of the Battle of Grand Couronné, a German assault against French positions on high ground near the city of Nancy.
October 5 » World War I: An aircraft successfully destroys another aircraft with gunfire.
October 19 » First World War: The First Battle of Ypres begins.
October 29 » Ottoman entry into World War I.
November 16 » The Federal Reserve Bank of the United States officially opens.
Day of marriage April 3, 1934
The temperature on April 3, 1934 was between 2.7 °C and 18.5 °C and averaged 10.7 °C. There was 10.4 hours of sunshine (80%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. Source: KNMI
January 1 » Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay becomes a United States federal prison.
February 2 » The Export-Import Bank of the United States is incorporated.
May 23 » Infamous American bank robbers Bonnie and Clyde are ambushed by police and killed in Bienville Parish, Louisiana.
June 30 » The Night of the Long Knives, Adolf Hitler's violent purge of his political rivals in Germany, takes place.
July 11 » Engelbert Zaschka of Germany flies his large human-powered aircraft, the Zaschka Human-Power Aircraft, about 20 meters at Berlin Tempelhof Airport without assisted take-off.
September 21 » A large typhoon hits western Honshū, Japan, killing more than three thousand people.
Day of death June 6, 1981
The temperature on June 6, 1981 was between 10.8 °C and 19.1 °C and averaged 14.8 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain during 0.2 hours. There was 7.3 hours of sunshine (44%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the 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.
In The Netherlands , there was from Friday, September 11, 1981 to Saturday, May 29, 1982 the cabinet Van Agt II, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA) as prime minister.
March 5 » The ZX81, a pioneering British home computer, is launched by Sinclair Research and would go on to sell over 1⁄2 million units around the world.
March 27 » The Solidarity movement in Poland stages a warning strike, in which at least 12 million Poles walk off their jobs for four hours.
June 7 » The Israeli Air Force destroys Iraq's Osiraq nuclear reactor during Operation Opera.
June 16 » US President Ronald Reagan awards the Congressional Gold Medal to Ken Taylor, Canada's former ambassador to Iran, for helping six Americans escape from Iran during the hostage crisis of 1979–81; he is the first foreign citizen bestowed the honor.
July 19 » In a private meeting with U.S. President Ronald Reagan, French President François Mitterrand reveals the existence of the Farewell Dossier, a collection of documents showing the Soviet Union had been stealing American technological research and development.
December 31 » A coup d'état in Ghana removes President Hilla Limann's PNP government and replaces it with the Provisional National Defence Council led by Flight lieutenant Jerry Rawlings.
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