The temperature on December 24, 1918 was between 0.5 °C and 7.0 °C and averaged 3.7 °C. There was 3.9 hours of sunshine (50%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-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.
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.
February 5 » SSTuscania is torpedoed off the coast of Ireland; it is the first ship carrying American troops to Europe to be torpedoed and sunk.
March 12 » Moscow becomes the capital of Russia again after Saint Petersburg held this status for most of the period since 1713.
May 2 » General Motors acquires the Chevrolet Motor Company of Delaware.
July 17 » Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and his immediate family and retainers are executed by Bolshevik Chekists at the Ipatiev House in Yekaterinburg, Russia.
November 18 » Latvia declares its independence from Russia.
November 26 » The Montenegran Podgorica Assembly votes for a "union of the people", declaring assimilation into the Kingdom of Serbia.
Day of marriage April 24, 1943
The temperature on April 24, 1943 was between 6.4 °C and 12.6 °C and averaged 10.3 °C. There was 1.9 mm of rain during 0.9 hours. There was 5.0 hours of sunshine (35%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from July 27, 1941 to February 23, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy II, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
February 18 » World War II: Joseph Goebbels delivers his Sportpalast speech.
June 19 » The Philadelphia Eagles and Pittsburgh Steelers in the NFL merge for one season due to player shortages caused by World War II.
August 31 » USSHarmon, the first U.S. Navy ship to be named after a black person, is commissioned.
September 16 » World War II: The German Tenth Army reports that it can no longer contain the Allied bridgehead around Salerno.
November 25 » World War II: Statehood of Bosnia and Herzegovina is re-established at the State Anti-fascist Council for the National Liberation of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
December 24 » World War II: U.S. General Dwight D. Eisenhower is named Supreme Allied Commander for the Invasion of Normandy.
Day of death August 3, 1979
The temperature on August 3, 1979 was between 12.2 °C and 20.1 °C and averaged 16.0 °C. There was 1.0 mm of rain during 0.2 hours. There was 5.3 hours of sunshine (34%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-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.
March 5 » Soviet probes Venera 11, Venera 12 and the German-American solar satellite Helios II all are hit by "off the scale" gamma rays leading to the discovery of soft gamma repeaters.
March 8 » Philips demonstrates the compact disc publicly for the first time.
March 25 » The first fully functional Space Shuttle orbiter, Columbia, is delivered to the John F. Kennedy Space Center to be prepared for its first launch.
April 4 » Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto of Pakistan is executed.
July 11 » America's first space station, Skylab, is destroyed as it re-enters the Earth's atmosphere over the Indian Ocean.
December 4 » The Hastie fire in Hull kills three schoolboys and eventually leads police to arrest Bruce George Peter Lee.
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