The temperature on September 14, 1914 was between 10.3 °C and 18.4 °C and averaged 14.5 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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.
April 24 » The Franck–Hertz experiment, a pillar of quantum mechanics, is presented to the German Physical Society.
May 15 » During a poker game at the Gaiety Theatre in Galesburg, Illinois, comedian Art Fisher nicknames Chicko, Harpo, Groucho, and Gummo Marx.
August 25 » World War I: The library of the Catholic University of Leuven is deliberately destroyed by the German Army. Hundreds of thousands of irreplaceable volumes and Gothic and Renaissance manuscripts are lost.
September 9 » World War I: The creation of the Canadian Automobile Machine Gun Brigade, the first fully mechanized unit in the British Army.
November 1 » World War I: The Australian Imperial Force (AIF) departed by ship in a single convoy from Albany, Western Australia bound for Egypt.
November 7 » The first issue of The New Republic is published.
Day of marriage August 3, 1938
The temperature on August 3, 1938 was between 16.1 °C and 26.0 °C and averaged 20.6 °C. There was 13.3 hours of sunshine (86%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. Source: KNMI
March 12 » Anschluss: German troops occupy and absorb Austria.
March 27 » Second Sino-Japanese War: The Battle of Taierzhuang begins, resulting several weeks later in the war's first major Chinese victory over Japan.
June 11 » Second Sino-Japanese War: The Battle of Wuhan starts.
July 10 » Howard Hughes begins a 91-hour airplane flight around the world that will set a new record.
July 31 » Archaeologists discover engraved gold and silver plates from King Darius the Great in Persepolis.
August 18 » The Thousand Islands Bridge, connecting New York, United States with Ontario, Canada over the Saint Lawrence River, is dedicated by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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