The temperature on July 29, 1916 was between 11.9 °C and 23.8 °C and averaged 17.3 °C. There was 7.8 hours of sunshine (50%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) 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.
July 1 » World War I: First day on the Somme: On the first day of the Battle of the Somme 19,000 soldiers of the British Army are killed and 40,000 wounded.
July 15 » In Seattle, Washington, William Boeing and George Conrad Westervelt incorporate Pacific Aero Products (later renamed Boeing).
September 6 » The first self-service grocery store Piggly Wiggly was opened in Memphis, Tennessee by Clarence Saunders.
November 18 » World War I: First Battle of the Somme: In France, British Expeditionary Force commander Douglas Haig calls off the battle which started on July 1, 1916.
November 30 » Costa Rica signs the Buenos Aires Convention, a copyright treaty.
December 29 » A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, the first novel by James Joyce, was first published as a book by an American publishing house B. W. Huebschis after it had been serialized in The Egoist (1914–15).
Day of death September 16, 2015
The temperature on September 16, 2015 was between 11.0 °C and 19.2 °C and averaged 15.4 °C. There was 5.8 mm of rain during 4.4 hours. There was 0.7 hours of sunshine (6%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, November 5, 2012 to Thursday, October 26, 2017 the cabinet Rutte II, with Mark Rutte (VVD) as prime minister.
May 12 » A train derailment in Philadelphia kills eight people and injures more than 200.
May 23 » At least 46 people are killed as a result of floods caused by a tornado in Texas and Oklahoma.
October 26 » A 7.5 magnitude earthquake strikes in the Hindu Kush mountain range in northeastern Afghanistan, killing 398 people and leaving 2,536 people injured.
November 5 » An iron ore tailings dam bursts in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais flooding a valley, causing mudslides in the nearby village of Bento Rodrigues and causing at least 17 deaths and two missing.
November 5 » Rona Ambrose takes over after Stephen Harper as the Leader of the Conservative Party of Canada.
November 13 » A set of coordinated terror attacks in Paris, including multiple shootings, explosions, and a hostage crisis in the 10th and 11th arrondissements kill 130 people, seven attackers, and injured 368 others, with at least 80 critically wounded.
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