The temperature on August 21, 1907 was between 8.4 °C and 17.1 °C and averaged 12.9 °C. There was 0.9 mm of rain. There was 5.1 hours of sunshine (36%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from August 17, 1905 to February 11, 1908 the cabinet De Meester, with Mr. Th. de Meester (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
April 15 » Triangle Fraternity is founded at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.
May 23 » The unicameral Parliament of Finland gathers for its first plenary session.
July 21 » The passenger steamer SS Columbia sinks after colliding with the steam schooner San Pedro off Shelter Cove, California, killing 88 people.
August 9 » The first Boy Scout encampment concludes at Brownsea Island in southern England.
December 6 » A coal mine explosion at Monongah, West Virginia, kills 362 workers.
December 17 » Ugyen Wangchuck is crowned first King of Bhutan.
Day of marriage April 16, 1927
The temperature on April 16, 1927 was between 2.3 °C and 11.5 °C and averaged 6.4 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain. There was 5.2 hours of sunshine (37%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest. Source: KNMI
May 8 » Attempting to make the first non-stop transatlantic flight from Paris to New York, French war heroes Charles Nungesser and François Coli disappear after taking off aboard The White Bird biplane.
August 7 » The Peace Bridge opens between Fort Erie, Ontario and Buffalo, New York.
August 23 » Italian anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti are executed after a lengthy, controversial trial.
October 4 » Gutzon Borglum begins sculpting Mount Rushmore.
December 11 » Guangzhou Uprising: Communist Red Guards launch an uprising in Guangzhou, China, taking over most of the city and announcing the formation of a Guangzhou Soviet.
December 17 » Indian revolutionary Rajendra Lahiri is hanged in Gonda jail, Uttar Pradesh, India, two days before the scheduled date.
Day of death March 15, 1991
The temperature on March 15, 1991 was between 7.2 °C and 11.7 °C and averaged 9.3 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the 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 9 » Representatives from the United States and Iraq meet at the Geneva Peace Conference to try to find a peaceful resolution to the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait.
February 28 » The first Gulf War ends.
April 29 » The 7.0 Mw Racha earthquake affects Georgia with a maximum MSK intensity of IX (Destructive), killing 270 people.
August 20 » Estonia, occupied by and incorporated into the Soviet Union in 1940, issues a decision on the re-establishment of independence on the basis of legal continuity of its pre-occupation statehood.
September 29 » A Haitian coup d'état occurs.
November 18 » Shiite Muslim kidnappers in Lebanon release Anglican Church envoys Terry Waite and Thomas Sutherland.
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