The temperature on September 12, 1916 was between 8.7 °C and 19.2 °C and averaged 14.3 °C. There was 4.1 hours of sunshine (32%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-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 21 » World War I: In France, the Battle of Verdun begins.
August 30 » Ernest Shackleton completes the rescue of all of his men stranded on Elephant Island in Antarctica.
September 17 » World War I: Manfred von Richthofen ("The Red Baron"), a flying ace of the German Luftstreitkräfte, wins his first aerial combat near Cambrai, France.
November 18 » World War I: First Battle of the Somme: In France, British Expeditionary Force commander Douglas Haig calls off the battle which started on July 1, 1916.
December 6 » World War I: The Central Powers capture Bucharest.
December 30 » Russian mystic and advisor to the Tsar Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin was murdered by a loyalist group led by Prince Felix Yusupov. His frozen, partially-trussed body was discovered in a Moscow river three days later.
Day of death January 9, 2013
The temperature on January 9, 2013 was between 4.0 °C and 7.9 °C and averaged 6.5 °C. There was 7.1 mm of rain during 12.5 hours. The almost completely overcast 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 24 » A building collapses near Dhaka, Bangladesh, killing 1,129 people and injuring 2,500 others.
July 18 » The Government of Detroit, with up to $20billion in debt, files for the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history.
September 21 » Al-Shabaab Islamic militants attack the Westgate shopping mall in Kenya, killing at least 67 people.
October 15 » The 7.2 Mw Bohol earthquake strikes the Philippines. At least 215 die.
October 28 » Five people are killed and 38 are injured after a car crashes into barriers at the Tiananmen Square in China.
December 19 » Spacecraft Gaia is launched by European Space Agency.
Day of burial January 14, 2013
The temperature on January 14, 2013 was between -7.4 °C and -1.9 °C and averaged -3.5 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 4.5 hours of sunshine (55%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east. 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.
February 7 » The U.S. state of Mississippi officially certifies the Thirteenth Amendment, becoming the last state to approve the abolition of slavery. The Thirteenth Amendment was formally ratified by Mississippi in 1995.
July 6 » A Boeing 777 operating as Asiana Airlines Flight 214 crashes at San Francisco International Airport, killing three and injuring 181 of the 307 people on board.
July 20 » Seventeen government soldiers are killed in an attack by FARC revolutionaries in the Colombian department of Arauca.
November 8 » Typhoon Haiyan, one of the strongest tropical cyclones ever recorded, strikes the Visayas region of the Philippines; the storm left at least 6,340 people dead with over 1,000 still missing, and caused $2.86 billion (2013 USD) in damage.
November 17 » A rare late-season tornado outbreak strikes the Midwest. Illinois and Indiana are most affected with tornado reports as far north as lower Michigan. In all around six dozen tornadoes touch down in approximately an 11-hour time period, including seven EF3 and two EF4 tornadoes.
November 21 » Massive protests start in Ukraine after President Viktor Yanukovych suspended signing the Ukraine–European Union Association Agreement.
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