The temperature on December 23, 1923 was between -0.2 °C and 3.8 °C and averaged 2.3 °C. There was 6.3 mm of rain. There was 1.9 hours of sunshine (25%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from September 19, 1922 to August 4, 1925 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck II, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
February 10 » Texas Tech University is founded as Texas Technological College in Lubbock, Texas
June 18 » Checker Taxi puts its first taxi on the streets.
July 1 » The Parliament of Canada suspends all Chinese immigration.
September 4 » Maiden flight of the first U.S. airship, the USSShenandoah.
September 8 » Honda Point disaster: Nine US Navy destroyers run aground off the California coast. Seven are lost, and twenty-three sailors killed.
September 26 » The German government accepts the occupation of the Ruhr.
Day of death August 8, 2000
The temperature on August 8, 2000 was between 13.0 °C and 22.3 °C and averaged 17.3 °C. There was 1.2 mm of rain during 1.4 hours. There was 6.8 hours of sunshine (45%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. Source: KNMI
January 31 » Alaska Airlines Flight 261 crash: An MD-83, experiencing horizontal stabilizer problems, crashes in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Point Mugu, California, killing all 88 aboard.
May 11 » Second Chechen War: Chechen separatists ambush Russian paramilitary forces in the Republic of Ingushetia.
July 2 » Vicente Fox Quesada is elected the first President of México from an opposition party, the Partido Acción Nacional, after more than 70 years of continuous rule by the Partido Revolucionario Institucional.
August 12 » The Russian Navy submarine Kursk explodes and sinks in the Barents Sea during a military exercise, killing her entire 118-man crew.
October 1 » Israel-Palestinian conflict: Palestinians protest the murder of 12-year-old Muhammad al-Durrah by the Israeli police in northern Israel, beginning the "October 2000 events".
December 31 » The last day of the 20th Century and 2nd Millennium.
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