The temperature on March 3, 1916 was between 0.7 °C and 6.7 °C and averaged 3.0 °C. There was 5.2 mm of rain. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north. 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 10 » World War I: In the Erzurum Offensive, Russia defeats the Ottoman Empire.
February 21 » World War I: In France, the Battle of Verdun begins.
April 24 » Ernest Shackleton and five men of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition launch a lifeboat from uninhabited Elephant Island in the Southern Ocean to organise a rescue for the crew of the sunken Endurance.
July 19 » World War I: Battle of Fromelles: British and Australian troops attack German trenches as part of the Battle of the Somme.
August 16 » The Migratory Bird Treaty between Canada and the United States is signed.
December 30 » Russian mystic and advisor to the Tsar Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin was murdered by a loyalist group led by Prince Felix Yusupov. His frozen, partially-trussed body was discovered in a Moscow river three days later.
Day of death February 8, 1971
The temperature on February 8, 1971 was between 3.2 °C and 9.4 °C and averaged 6.2 °C. There was 2.1 hours of sunshine (22%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. Source: KNMI
February 2 » Idi Amin replaces President Milton Obote as leader of Uganda.
February 8 » South Vietnamese ground troops launch an incursion into Laos to try to cut off the Ho Chi Minh trail and stop communist infiltration.
February 9 » The 6.5–6.7 Mw Sylmar earthquake hits the Greater Los Angeles Area with a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme), killing 64 and injuring 2,000.
May 30 » Mariner program: Mariner 9 is launched to map 70% of the surface, and to study temporal changes in the atmosphere and surface, of Mars.
August 27 » An attempted coup d'état fails in the African nation of Chad. The Government of Chad accuses Egypt of playing a role in the attempt and breaks off diplomatic relations.
November 18 » Oman declares its independence from United Kingdom.
Day of burial February 11, 1971
The temperature on February 11, 1971 was between -2.2 °C and 6.7 °C and averaged 2.1 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 4.7 hours of sunshine (49%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. Source: KNMI
February 27 » Doctors in the first Dutch abortion clinic (the Mildredhuis in Arnhem) start performing artificially-induced abortions.
April 7 » President Richard Nixon announces his decision to quicken the pace of Vietnamization.
July 15 » The United Red Army is founded in Japan.
September 15 » The first Greenpeace ship sets sail to protest against nuclear testing on Amchitka Island.
November 27 » The Soviet space program's Mars 2 orbiter releases a descent module. It malfunctions and crashes, but it is the first man-made object to reach the surface of Mars.
December 3 » Indo-Pakistani War of 1971: Pakistan launches a pre-emptive strike against India and a full-scale war begins.
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