The temperature on February 18, 1931 was between -1.8 °C and 0.8 °C and averaged 0.4 °C. There was 4.1 mm of rain during 4.7 hours. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from August 10, 1929 to May 26, 1933 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck III, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
March 23 » Bhagat Singh, Shivaram Rajguru and Sukhdev Thapar are hanged for the killing of a deputy superintendent of police during the Indian independence movement.
June 23 » Wiley Post and Harold Gatty take off from Roosevelt Field, Long Island in an attempt to circumnavigate the world in a single-engine plane.
July 1 » United Airlines begins service (as Boeing Air Transport).
September 30 » Start of "Die Voortrekkers" youth movement for Afrikaners in Bloemfontein, South Africa.
October 21 » A secret society in the Imperial Japanese Army launches an abortive coup d'état attempt.
November 7 » The Chinese Soviet Republic is proclaimed on the anniversary of the October Revolution.
Day of death December 9, 2013
The temperature on December 9, 2013 was between 7.4 °C and 11.1 °C and averaged 9.1 °C. There was 2.7 hours of sunshine (34%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, November 5, 2012 to Thursday, October 26, 2017 the cabinet Rutte II, with Mark Rutte (VVD) as prime minister.
April 15 » A wave of bombings across Iraq kills at least 75 people.
May 31 » The asteroid 1998 QE2 and its moon make their closest approach to Earth for the next two centuries.
June 30 » Nineteen firefighters die controlling a wildfire in Yarnell, Arizona.
August 15 » At least 27 people are killed and 226 injured in an explosion in southern Beirut near a complex used by Lebanon's militant group Hezbollah in Lebanon. A previously unknown Syrian Sunni group claims responsibility in an online video.
October 12 » Fifty-one people are killed after a truck veers off a cliff in Peru.
November 24 » Iran signs an interim agreement with the P5+1 countries, limiting its nuclear program in exchange for reduced sanctions.
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