The temperature on August 6, 1920 was between 12.2 °C and 16.7 °C and averaged 13.9 °C. There was 8.3 mm of rain. There was 1.3 hours of sunshine (9%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from September 9, 1918 to September 18, 1922 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck I, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
January 16 » The League of Nations holds its first council meeting in Paris, France.
January 23 » The Netherlands refuses to surrender the exiled Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany to the Allies.
March 13 » The Kapp Putsch briefly ousts the Weimar Republic government from Berlin.
May 2 » The first game of the Negro National League baseball is played in Indianapolis.
August 13 » Polish–Soviet War: The Battle of Warsaw begins and will last till August 25. The Red Army is defeated.
August 16 » Ray Chapman of the Cleveland Indians is hit on the head by a fastball thrown by Carl Mays of the New York Yankees, and dies early the next day. Chapman was the second player to die from injuries sustained in a Major League Baseball game, the first being Doc Powers in 1909.
Day of marriage April 21, 1942
The temperature on April 21, 1942 was between 5.8 °C and 13.4 °C and averaged 8.6 °C. There was 4.0 hours of sunshine (28%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the ??. Source: KNMI
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 18 » World War II: The Doolittle Raid on Japan: Tokyo, Yokohama, Kobe and Nagoya are bombed.
July 27 » World War II: Allied forces successfully halt the final Axis advance into Egypt.
August 25 » World War II: Second day of the Battle of the Eastern Solomons; a Japanese naval transport convoy headed towards Guadalcanal is turned back by an Allied air attack.
August 30 » World War II: The Battle of Alam el Halfa begins.
November 3 » World War II: The Koli Point action begins during the Guadalcanal Campaign and ends on November 12.
November 21 » The completion of the Alaska Highway (also known as the Alcan Highway) is celebrated (however, the highway is not usable by standard road vehicles until 1943).
Day of death December 4, 1971
The temperature on December 4, 1971 was between -1.3 °C and 5.4 °C and averaged 2.1 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
January 21 » The current Emley Moor transmitting station, the tallest free-standing structure in the United Kingdom, begins transmitting UHF broadcasts.
January 25 » Idi Amin leads a coup deposing Milton Obote and becomes Uganda's president.
February 2 » The international Ramsar Convention for the conservation and sustainable utilization of wetlands is signed in Ramsar, Mazandaran, Iran.
June 13 » Vietnam War: The New York Times begins publication of the Pentagon Papers.
July 11 » Copper mines in Chile are nationalized.
November 18 » Oman declares its independence from United Kingdom.
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