The temperature on May 5, 1914 was between 9.4 °C and 15.1 °C and averaged 11.8 °C. There was 1.9 mm of rain. There was 4.9 hours of sunshine (32%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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.
January 1 » The SPT Airboat Line becomes the world's first scheduled airline to use a winged aircraft.
August 3 » World War I: Germany declares war against France, while Romania declares its neutrality.
August 25 » World War I: The library of the Catholic University of Leuven is deliberately destroyed by the German Army. Hundreds of thousands of irreplaceable volumes and Gothic and Renaissance manuscripts are lost.
August 29 » World War I: Start of the Battle of St. Quentin in which the French Fifth Army counter-attacked the invading Germans at Saint-Quentin, Aisne.
September 9 » World War I: The creation of the Canadian Automobile Machine Gun Brigade, the first fully mechanized unit in the British Army.
November 13 » Zaian War: Berber tribesmen inflict the heaviest defeat of French forces in Morocco at the Battle of El Herri.
Day of marriage August 28, 1936
The temperature on August 28, 1936 was between 9.8 °C and 23.9 °C and averaged 17.0 °C. There was 12.3 hours of sunshine (88%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east. Source: KNMI
March 8 » Daytona Beach and Road Course holds its first oval stock car race.
May 5 » Italian troops occupy Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
July 21 » Spanish Civil War: The Central Committee of Antifascist Militias of Catalonia is constituted, establishing an anarcho-syndicalist economy in Catalonia.
August 31 » Radio Prague, now the official international broadcasting station of the Czech Republic, goes on the air.
November 30 » In London, the Crystal Palace is destroyed by fire.
December 23 » Colombia becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
Day of death February 14, 1978
The temperature on February 14, 1978 was between -2.8 °C and 1.3 °C and averaged -0.1 °C. There was 1.8 mm of rain during 1.3 hours. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, December 19, 1977 to Friday, September 11, 1981 the cabinet Van Agt I, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA/KVP) as prime minister.
February 8 » Proceedings of the United States Senate are broadcast on radio for the first time.
February 24 » The Yuba County Five disappear in California. Four of their bodies are found four months later.
June 25 » The rainbow flag representing gay pride is flown for the first time during the San Francisco Gay Freedom Day Parade.
September 15 » Muhammad Ali outpointed Leon Spinks in a rematch to become the first boxer to win the world heavyweight title three times at the Superdome in New Orleans.
October 3 » A Finnish Air Force DC-3 crashes, killing all 15 people on board.
December 16 » Cleveland, Ohio becomes the first major American city to default on its financial obligations since the Great Depression.
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