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.
June 4 » World War I: Russia opens the Brusilov Offensive with an artillery barrage of Austro-Hungarian lines in Galicia.
June 5 » World War I: The Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Empire breaks out.
August 17 » World War I: Romania signs a secret treaty with the Entente Powers. According to the treaty, Romania agreed to join the war on the Allied side.
September 11 » The Quebec Bridge's central span collapses, killing 11 men. The bridge previously collapsed completely on August 29, 1907.
November 21 » Mines from SM U-73 sink the HMHS Britannic, the largest ship lost in the First World War.
December 29 » A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, the first novel by James Joyce, was first published as a book by an American publishing house B. W. Huebschis after it had been serialized in The Egoist (1914–15).
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.
February 18 » Armed robbers steal a haul of diamonds worth $50 million during a raid at Brussels Airport in Belgium.
April 9 » A 6.1–magnitude earthquake strikes Iran killing 32 people and injuring over 850 people.
April 17 » An explosion at a fertilizer plant in the city of West, Texas, kills 15 people and injures 160 others.
May 13 » American physician Kermit Gosnell is found guilty in Pennsylvania of murdering three infants born alive during attempted abortions, involuntary manslaughter of a woman during an abortion procedure, and other charges.
June 3 » At least 119 people are killed in a fire at a poultry farm in Jilin Province in northeastern China.
June 5 » A building collapse in Philadelphia kills six and wounds 14 other people.
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.
January 4 » A gunman kills eight people in a house-to-house rampage in Kawit, Cavite, Philippines.
February 27 » A shooting takes place at a factory in Menznau, Switzerland, in which five people (including the perpetrator) are killed and five others injured.
March 13 » The 2013 papal conclave elects Pope Francis as the 266th Pope of the Catholic Church.
March 29 » At least 36 people are killed when a 16-floor building collapses in the commercial capital Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
April 29 » A powerful explosion occurs in an office building in Prague, believed to have been caused by natural gas, injures 43 people.
May 30 » Nigeria passes a law banning same-sex marriage.
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