The temperature on April 10, 1914 was between 8.7 °C and 14.7 °C and averaged 10.9 °C. There was 4.0 mm of rain. There was 5.7 hours of sunshine (42%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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.
July 11 » Babe Ruth makes his debut in Major League Baseball.
July 18 » The U.S. Congress forms the Aviation Section, U.S. Signal Corps, giving official status to aircraft within the U.S. Army for the first time.
September 1 » St. Petersburg, Russia, changes its name to Petrograd.
September 22 » A German submarine sinks three British cruisers over a seventy-minute period, killing almost 1500 sailors.
November 16 » The Federal Reserve Bank of the United States officially opens.
December 8 » World War I: A squadron of Britain's Royal Navy defeats the Imperial German East Asia Squadron in the Battle of the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic.
Christening day June 7, 1914
The temperature on June 7, 1914 was between 3.9 °C and 11.1 °C and averaged 8.6 °C. There was 7.5 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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.
March 7 » Prince William of Wied arrives in Albania to begin his reign as King.
April 23 » First baseball game at Wrigley Field, then known as Weeghman Park, in Chicago.
July 11 » USSNevada(BB-36) is launched.
August 1 » The German Empire declares war on the Russian Empire at the opening of World War I. The Swiss Army mobilizes because of World War I.
August 3 » World War I: Germany declares war against France, while Romania declares its neutrality.
September 13 » World War I: The Battle of Aisne begins between Germany and France.
Day of marriage September 12, 1941
The temperature on September 12, 1941 was between 10.6 °C and 15.5 °C and averaged 12.0 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain during 0.2 hours. There was 1.3 hours of sunshine (10%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest. Source: KNMI
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.
In The Netherlands , there was from July 27, 1941 to February 23, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy II, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
April 1 » Fântâna Albă massacre: Between 200 and 2,000 Romanian civilians are killed by Soviet Border Troops.
May 10 » World War II: Rudolf Hess parachutes into Scotland to try to negotiate a peace deal between the United Kingdom and Nazi Germany.
August 15 » Corporal Josef Jakobs is executed by firing squad at the Tower of London at 07:12, making him the last person to be executed at the Tower for espionage.
December 23 » World War II: After 15 days of fighting, the Imperial Japanese Army occupies Wake Island.
December 25 » Admiral Émile Muselier seizes the archipelago of Saint Pierre and Miquelon, which become the first part of France to be liberated by the Free French Forces.
December 28 » World War II: Operation Anthropoid, the plot to assassinate high-ranking Nazi officer Reinhard Heydrich, commences.
Day of death July 16, 1980
The temperature on July 16, 1980 was between 9.0 °C and 15.3 °C and averaged 12.9 °C. There was 0.8 mm of rain during 0.7 hours. There was 1.1 hours of sunshine (7%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, December 19, 1977 to Friday, September 11, 1981 the cabinet Van Agt I, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA/KVP) as prime minister.
February 25 » The government of Suriname is overthrown by a military coup led by Dési Bouterse.
March 4 » Nationalist leader Robert Mugabe wins a sweeping election victory to become Zimbabwe's first black prime minister.
March 27 » Silver Thursday: A steep fall in silver prices, resulting from the Hunt Brothers attempting to corner the market in silver, leads to panic on commodity and futures exchanges.
April 12 » Transbrasil Flight 303, a Boeing 727, crashes on approach to Hercílio Luz International Airport, in Florianópolis, Brazil. Fifty-five out of the 58 people on board are killed.
August 27 » A massive bomb planted by extortionist John Birges explodes at Harvey's Resort Hotel in Stateline, Nevada after a failed disarming attempt by the FBI. Although the hotel is damaged, no one is injured.
October 30 » El Salvador and Honduras agree to put the border dispute fought over in 1969's Football War before the International Court of Justice.
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