The temperature on April 25, 1925 was between -0.3 °C and 11.0 °C and averaged 5.2 °C. There was 2.1 mm of rain. There was 5.7 hours of sunshine (39%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from September 19, 1922 to August 4, 1925 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck II, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
In The Netherlands , there was from August 4, 1925 to March 8, 1926 the cabinet Colijn I, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
January 3 » Benito Mussolini announces he is taking dictatorial powers over Italy.
April 4 » The Schutzstaffel (SS) is founded under Adolf Hitler's Nazi party in Germany.
May 1 » The All-China Federation of Trade Unions is officially founded. Today it is the largest trade union in the world, with 134million members.
May 15 » Al-Insaniyyah, the first Arabic communist newspaper, is founded.
September 8 » Rif War: Spanish forces including troops from the Foreign Legion under Colonel Francisco Franco landing at Al Hoceima, Morocco.
November 5 » Secret agent Sidney Reilly, the first "super-spy" of the 20th century, is executed by the OGPU, the secret police of the Soviet Union.
Day of death January 17, 1956
The temperature on January 17, 1956 was between 2.5 °C and 6.9 °C and averaged 4.7 °C. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
January 30 » African-American civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr.'s home is bombed in retaliation for the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
May 1 » A doctor in Japan reports an "epidemic of an unknown disease of the central nervous system", marking the official discovery of Minamata disease.
August 6 » After going bankrupt in 1955, the American broadcaster DuMont Television Network makes its final broadcast, a boxing match from St. Nicholas Arena in New York in the Boxing from St. Nicholas Arena series.
October 28 » Elvis Presley receives a polio vaccination on national TV.
November 2 » Suez Crisis: Israel occupies the Gaza Strip.
November 7 » Hungarian Revolution: János Kádár returns to Budapest in a Soviet armored convoy, officially taking office as the next Hungarian leader. By this point, most armed resistance has been defeated.
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