The temperature on July 9, 1915 was between 11.1 °C and 19.1 °C and averaged 15.1 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 7.5 hours of sunshine (45%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) 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.
January 19 » Georges Claude patents the neon discharge tube for use in advertising.
February 8 » D. W. Griffith's controversial film The Birth of a Nation premieres in Los Angeles.
February 12 » In Washington, D.C., the first stone of the Lincoln Memorial is put into place.
March 18 » World War I: During the Battle of Gallipoli, three battleships are sunk during a failed British and French naval attack on the Dardanelles.
April 22 » The use of poison gas in World War I escalates when chlorine gas is released as a chemical weapon in the Second Battle of Ypres.
May 23 » World War I: Italy joins the Allies, fulfilling its part of the Treaty of London.
Day of death December 8, 1984
The temperature on December 8, 1984 was between -0.5 °C and 6.1 °C and averaged 3.5 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, November 4, 1982 to Monday, July 14, 1986 the cabinet Lubbers I, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
January 7 » Brunei becomes the sixth member of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).
June 8 » Homosexuality is declared legal in the Australian state of New South Wales.
August 5 » A Biman Bangladesh Airlines Fokker F27 Friendship crashes on approach to Zia International Airport, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, killing all 49 people on board.
September 5 » Western Australia becomes the last Australian state to abolish capital punishment.
December 20 » The Summit Tunnel fire, one of the largest transportation tunnel fires in history, burns after a freight train carrying over one million liters of gasoline derails near the town of Todmorden, England, in the Pennines.
December 23 » After experiencing an engine fire, Aeroflot Flight 3519 attempts to make an emergency landing at Krasnoyarsk International Airport but crashes, killing 110 of the 111 people on board.
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