The temperature on July 11, 1917 was between 9.5 °C and 19.3 °C and averaged 14.7 °C. There was 1.6 hours of sunshine (10%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north. 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 11 » World War I: Mesopotamian campaign: Baghdad falls to Anglo-Indian forces commanded by General Stanley Maude.
August 6 » World War I: Battle of Mărășești between the Romanian and German armies begins.
August 28 » Ten Suffragettes are arrested while picketing the White House.
September 26 » World War I: The Battle of Polygon Wood begins.
November 5 » Tikhon is elected the Patriarch of Moscow and of the Russian Orthodox Church.
November 7 » The Gregorian calendar date of the October Revolution, which gets its name from the Julian calendar date of 25 October. On this date in 1917, the Bolsheviks storm the Winter Palace.
Day of death August 24, 1991
The temperature on August 24, 1991 was between 10.3 °C and 21.0 °C and averaged 16.4 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 7.7 hours of sunshine (54%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, November 7, 1989 to Monday, August 22, 1994 the cabinet Lubbers III, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
January 5 » Georgian forces enter Tskhinvali, the capital of South Ossetia, Georgia, opening the 1991–92 South Ossetia War.
May 24 » Israel conducts Operation Solomon, evacuating Ethiopian Jews to Israel.
August 17 » Strathfield massacre: In Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, taxi driver Wade Frankum shoots seven people and injures six others before turning the gun on himself.
September 6 » The Soviet Union recognizes the independence of the Baltic states Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.
September 29 » A Haitian coup d'état occurs.
November 26 » National Assembly of Azerbaijan abolishes the autonomous status of Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast of Azerbaijan and renames several cities back to their original names.
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