The temperature on August 13, 1929 was between 8.3 °C and 21.9 °C and averaged 15.8 °C. There was 9.2 hours of sunshine (62%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from March 8, 1926 to August 10, 1929 the cabinet De Geer I, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
In The Netherlands , there was from August 10, 1929 to May 26, 1933 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck III, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
May 16 » In Hollywood, the first Academy Awards ceremony takes place.
August 11 » Babe Ruth becomes the first baseball player to hit 500 home runs in his career with a home run at League Park in Cleveland, Ohio.
October 3 » The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes is renamed to Yugoslavia by King Alexander I.
November 7 » In New York City, the Museum of Modern Art opens to the public.
November 18 » Grand Banks earthquake: Off the south coast of Newfoundland in the Atlantic Ocean, a Richter magnitude 7.2 submarine earthquake, centered on the Grand Banks, breaks 12 submarine transatlantic telegraph cables and triggers a tsunami that destroys many south coast communities in the Burin Peninsula.
November 29 » U.S. Admiral Richard E. Byrd leads the first expedition to fly over the South Pole.
Day of death June 29, 1947
The temperature on June 29, 1947 was between 15.6 °C and 26.8 °C and averaged 20.5 °C. There was 1.3 mm of rain during 1.0 hours. There was 4.2 hours of sunshine (25%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. Source: KNMI
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