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.
January 19 » Georges Claude patents the neon discharge tube for use in advertising.
May 27 » HMS Princess Irene exploded and sank off Sheerness, Kent with the loss of 352 lives.
July 7 » Colombo Town Guard officer Henry Pedris is executed in British Ceylon for allegedly inciting persecution of Muslims.
July 25 » RFC Captain Lanoe Hawker becomes the first British pursuit aviator to earn the Victoria Cross.
October 14 » World War I: Bulgaria joins the Central Powers.
November 25 » Albert Einstein presents the field equations of general relativity to the Prussian Academy of Sciences.
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 15 » Spanish Civil War: Nationalists and Republican both withdraw after suffering heavy losses, ending the Second Battle of the Corunna Road.
April 30 » The Commonwealth of the Philippines holds a plebiscite for Filipino women on whether they should be extended the right to suffrage; over 90% would vote in the affirmative.
June 3 » The Duke of Windsor marries Wallis Simpson.
July 7 » The Marco Polo Bridge Incident provides the Imperial Japanese Army with a pretext for starting the Second Sino-Japanese War.
July 8 » Turkey, Iran, Iraq and Afghanistan sign the Treaty of Saadabad.
July 22 » New Deal: The United States Senate votes down President Franklin D. Roosevelt's proposal to add more justices to the Supreme Court of the United States.
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.
January 4 » The Troubles: The Ulster Volunteer Force shoots dead six Irish Catholic civilians in County Armagh, Northern Ireland. The next day, gunmen would shoot dead ten Protestant civilians nearby in retaliation.
February 4 » In Guatemala and Honduras an earthquake kills more than 22,000.
February 9 » Aeroflot Flight 3739, a Tupolev Tu-104, crashes during takeoff from Irkutsk Airport, killing 24.
February 27 » The formerly Spanish territory of Western Sahara, under the auspices of the Polisario Front declares independence as the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic.
March 16 » British Prime Minister Harold Wilson resigns, citing personal reasons.
June 29 » The Seychelles become independent from the United Kingdom.
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