The temperature on December 25, 1915 was between 5.8 °C and 9.1 °C and averaged 7.7 °C. There was 1.1 mm of rain. There was 1.8 hours of sunshine (23%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the south-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.
February 22 » World War I: The Imperial German Navy institutes unrestricted submarine warfare.
May 9 » World War I: Second Battle of Artois between German and French forces.
May 27 » HMS Princess Irene exploded and sank off Sheerness, Kent with the loss of 352 lives.
July 1 » Leutnant Kurt Wintgens of the then-named German Deutsches Heer's Fliegertruppe army air service achieves the first known aerial victory with a synchronized machine-gun armed fighter plane, the Fokker M.5K/MG Eindecker.
July 7 » The First Battle of the Isonzo comes to an end.
September 12 » French soldiers rescue over 4,000 Armenian Genocide survivors stranded on Musa Dagh.
Day of marriage November 19, 1937
The temperature on November 19, 1937 was between 0.9 °C and 9.6 °C and averaged 4.9 °C. There was 2.5 mm of rain during 2.4 hours. There was 0.6 hours of sunshine (7%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
January 25 » The Guiding Light debuts on NBC radio from Chicago. In 1952 it moves to CBS television, where it remains until September 18, 2009.
February 21 » The League of Nations bans foreign national "volunteers" in the Spanish Civil War.
August 24 » Spanish Civil War: Sovereign Council of Asturias and León is proclaimed in Gijón.
October 11 » The Duke and Duchess of Windsor tour Nazi Germany for 12 days and meet Adolf Hitler on the 22nd.
November 1 » Stalinists execute Pastor Paul Hamberg and seven members of Azerbaijan's Lutheran community.
November 8 » The Nazi exhibition Der ewige Jude ("The Eternal Jew") opens in Munich.
Day of death July 28, 1976
The temperature on July 28, 1976 was between 10.4 °C and 20.6 °C and averaged 15.8 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 3.0 hours of sunshine (19%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Friday, May 11, 1973 to Monday, December 19, 1977 the cabinet Den Uyl, with Drs. J.M. den Uyl (PvdA) as prime minister.
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