The temperature on November 23, 1915 was between -4.3 °C and 5.1 °C and averaged 1.2 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-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.
January 26 » The Rocky Mountain National Park is established by an act of the U.S. Congress.
January 31 » World War I: Germany is the first to make large-scale use of poison gas in warfare in the Battle of Bolimów against Russia.
March 26 » The Vancouver Millionaires win the 1915 Stanley Cup Finals, the first championship played between the Pacific Coast Hockey Association and the National Hockey Association.
September 5 » The pacifist Zimmerwald Conference begins.
September 12 » French soldiers rescue over 4,000 Armenian Genocide survivors stranded on Musa Dagh.
December 20 » World War I: The last Australian troops are evacuated from Gallipoli.
Day of marriage September 24, 1953
The temperature on September 24, 1953 was between 8.1 °C and 17.6 °C and averaged 12.3 °C. There was 8.9 hours of sunshine (73%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
February 3 » The Batepá massacre occurred in São Tomé when the colonial administration and Portuguese landowners unleashed a wave of violence against the native creoles known as forros.
February 28 » James Watson and Francis Crick announce to friends that they have determined the chemical structure of DNA; the formal announcement takes place on April 25 following publication in April's Nature (pub. April 2).
April 13 » CIA director Allen Dulles launches the mind-control program Project MKUltra.
June 30 » The first Chevrolet Corvette rolls off the assembly line in Flint, Michigan.
September 13 » Nikita Khrushchev is appointed General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
October 30 » President Eisenhower approves the top-secret document NSC 162/2 concerning the maintenance of a strong nuclear deterrent force against the Soviet Union.
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