The temperature on November 28, 1917 was between 8.4 °C and 11.5 °C and averaged 9.8 °C. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-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.
January 17 » The United States pays Denmark $25 million for the Virgin Islands.
March 16 » World War I: A German auxiliary cruiser is sunk in the Action of 16 March 1917.
April 9 » World War I: The Battle of Arras: The battle begins with Canadian Corps executing a massive assault on Vimy Ridge.
May 19 » The Norwegian football club Rosenborg BK is founded.
May 21 » The Imperial War Graves Commission is established through royal charter to mark, record, and maintain the graves and places of commemoration of the British Empire's military forces.
September 26 » World War I: The Battle of Polygon Wood begins.
Day of death December 15, 1981
The temperature on December 15, 1981 was between -7.1 °C and -1.4 °C and averaged -4.2 °C. There was 6.2 hours of sunshine (80%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast. 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.
In The Netherlands , there was from Friday, September 11, 1981 to Saturday, May 29, 1982 the cabinet Van Agt II, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA) as prime minister.
April 26 » Dr. Michael R. Harrison of the University of California, San Francisco Medical Center performs the world's first human open fetal surgery.
May 13 » Mehmet Ali Ağca attempts to assassinate Pope John Paul II in St. Peter's Square in Rome. The Pope is rushed to the Agostino Gemelli University Polyclinic to undergo emergency surgery and survives.
September 18 » The Assemblée Nationale votes to abolish capital punishment in France.
September 26 » Nolan Ryan sets a Major League record by throwing his fifth no-hitter.
October 3 » The hunger strike at the Maze Prison in Northern Ireland ends after seven months and ten deaths.
November 11 » Antigua and Barbuda joins the United Nations.
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