The temperature on August 8, 1913 was between 8.1 °C and 18.4 °C and averaged 12.9 °C. There was 3.0 mm of rain. There was 8.2 hours of sunshine (54%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from February 12, 1908 to August 29, 1913 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. Th. Heemskerk (AR) as prime minister.
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 19 » Pedro Lascuráin becomes President of Mexico for 45 minutes; this is the shortest term to date of any person as president of any country.
March 18 » King George I of Greece is assassinated in the recently liberated city of Thessaloniki.
June 25 » American Civil War veterans begin arriving at the Great Reunion of 1913.
July 31 » The Balkan States sign an armistice in Bucharest.
September 23 » Roland Garros of France becomes the first to fly in an airplane across the Mediterranean (from St. Raphael in France to Bizerte, Tunisia).
December 1 » Ford Motor Company introduces the first moving assembly line.
Day of death March 12, 2008
The temperature on March 12, 2008 was between 5.8 °C and 9.4 °C and averaged 8.0 °C. There was 1.9 mm of rain during 2.3 hours. There was 1.0 hours of sunshine (9%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, February 22, 2007 to Thursday, October 14, 2010 the cabinet Balkenende IV, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
March 23 » Official opening of Rajiv Gandhi International Airport in Hyderabad, India
June 8 » At least seven people are killed and ten injured in a stabbing spree in Tokyo, Japan.
September 13 » Delhi, India, is hit by a series of bomb blasts, resulting in 30 deaths and 130 injuries.
September 15 » Lehman Brothers files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, the largest bankruptcy filing in U.S. history.
November 4 » Barack Obama becomes the first person of biracial or African-American descent to be elected President of the United States.
December 11 » Bernard Madoff is arrested and charged with securities fraud in a $50 billion Ponzi scheme.
Day of burial March 15, 2008
The temperature on March 15, 2008 was between 0.4 °C and 13.5 °C and averaged 8.0 °C. There was 2.9 hours of sunshine (25%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, February 22, 2007 to Thursday, October 14, 2010 the cabinet Balkenende IV, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
February 13 » Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd makes a historic apology to the Indigenous Australians and the Stolen Generations.
May 30 » TACA Flight 390 overshoots the runway at Toncontín International Airport, killing five people.
June 1 » A fire on the back lot of Universal Studios breaks out, destroying the attraction King Kong Encounter and a large archive of master tapes for music and film, the full extent of which was not revealed until 2019.
August 18 » War of Afghanistan: Uzbin Valley ambush occurs.
September 27 » CNSA astronaut Zhai Zhigang becomes the first Chinese person to perform a spacewalk.
October 22 » India launches its first unmanned lunar mission Chandrayaan-1.
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