The temperature on December 29, 1904 was between 1.2 °C and 10.0 °C and averaged 6.9 °C. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
February 7 » A fire begins in Baltimore, Maryland; it destroys over 1,500 buildings in 30 hours.
February 8 » Aceh War: Dutch Colonial Army's Marechaussee regiment led by General G.C.E. van Daalen launch military campaign to capture Gayo Highland, Alas Highland, and Batak Highland in Dutch East Indies' Northern Sumatra region, which ends with genocide to Acehnese and Bataks people.
February 22 » The United Kingdom sells a meteorological station on the South Orkney Islands to Argentina; the islands are subsequently claimed by the United Kingdom in 1908.
April 8 » Longacre Square in Midtown Manhattan is renamed Times Square after The New York Times.
April 30 » The Louisiana Purchase Exposition World's Fair opens in St. Louis, Missouri.
May 10 » The Horch & Cir. Motorwagenwerke AG is founded. It would eventually become the Audi company.
Day of marriage November 13, 1916
The temperature on November 13, 1916 was between 8.1 °C and 14.4 °C and averaged 10.5 °C. There was 3.3 hours of sunshine (37%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. 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.
May 6 » Twenty-one Lebanese nationalists are executed in Martyrs' Square, Beirut by Djemal Pasha.
June 5 » World War I: The Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Empire breaks out.
June 10 » The Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Empire was declared by Hussein bin Ali, Sharif of Mecca.
June 30 » World War I: In "the day Sussex died", elements of the Royal Sussex Regiment take heavy casualties in the Battle of the Boar's Head at Richebourg-l'Avoué in France.
September 7 » US federal employees win the right to Workers' compensation by Federal Employers Liability Act (39 Stat. 742; 5 U.S.C. 751)
November 7 » Woodrow Wilson is reelected as President of the United States.
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