The temperature on March 4, 1915 was between 6.0 °C and 7.8 °C and averaged 6.8 °C. There was 1.6 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 3 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.
February 8 » D. W. Griffith's controversial film The Birth of a Nation premieres in Los Angeles.
April 24 » The arrest of 250 Armenian intellectuals and community leaders in Istanbul marks the beginning of the Armenian Genocide.
July 7 » The First Battle of the Isonzo comes to an end.
July 25 » RFC Captain Lanoe Hawker becomes the first British pursuit aviator to earn the Victoria Cross.
August 4 » World War I: The German 12th Army occupies Warsaw during the Gorlice–Tarnów Offensive and the Great Retreat of 1915.
December 20 » World War I: The last Australian troops are evacuated from Gallipoli.
Day of death September 16, 2000
The temperature on September 16, 2000 was between 12.1 °C and 20.1 °C and averaged 15.5 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain during 0.5 hours. There was 3.8 hours of sunshine (30%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
January 21 » Ecuador: After the Ecuadorian Congress is seized by indigenous organizations, Col. Lucio Gutiérrez, Carlos Solorzano and Antonio Vargas depose President Jamil Mahuad. Gutierrez is later replaced by Gen. Carlos Mendoza, who resigns and allows Vice-President Gustavo Noboa to succeed Mahuad.
February 6 » Second Chechen War: Russia captures Grozny, Chechnya, forcing the separatist Chechen Republic of Ichkeria government into exile.
June 21 » Section 28 (of the Local Government Act 1988), outlawing the 'promotion' of homosexuality in the United Kingdom, is repealed in Scotland with a 99 to 17 vote.
August 23 » Gulf Air Flight 072 crashes into the Persian Gulf near Manama, Bahrain, killing 143.
October 12 » The USS Cole, a US Navy destroyer is badly damaged by two suicide bombers, killing 17 crew members and wounding at least 39.
November 1 » The Republic of Serbia and Montenegro joins the United Nations.
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