The temperature on April 8, 1917 was between -1.9 °C and 9.6 °C and averaged 3.4 °C. There was 10.9 hours of sunshine (81%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-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.
January 22 » World War I: President Woodrow Wilson of the still-neutral United States calls for "peace without victory" in Europe.
April 2 » World War I: United States President Woodrow Wilson asks the U.S. Congress for a declaration of war on Germany.
August 28 » Ten Suffragettes are arrested while picketing the White House.
October 4 » World War I: The Battle of Broodseinde is fought between the British and German armies in Flanders.
October 31 » World War I: Battle of Beersheba: The "last successful cavalry charge in history".
December 6 » Halifax Explosion: A munitions explosion near Halifax, Nova Scotia kills more than 1,900 people in the largest artificial explosion up to that time.
Day of death September 26, 1940
The temperature on September 26, 1940 was between 6.9 °C and 16.9 °C and averaged 11.9 °C. There was 5.9 hours of sunshine (49%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from August 10, 1939 to September 3, 1940 the cabinet De Geer II, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
In The Netherlands , there was from September 3, 1940 to July 27, 1941 the cabinet Gerbrandy I, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
May 5 » World War II: Norwegian refugees form a government-in-exile in London.
May 20 » The Holocaust: The first prisoners arrive at a new concentration camp at Auschwitz.
June 7 » King Haakon VII, Crown Prince Olav and the Norwegian government leave Tromsø and go into exile in London. They return exactly five years later.
July 19 » World War II: Army order 112 forms the Intelligence Corps of the British Army.
October 15 » President Lluís Companys of Catalonia is executed by the Francoist government.
November 13 » Walt Disney's animated musical film Fantasia is first released, on the first night of a roadshow at New York's Broadway Theatre.
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