The temperature on February 11, 1934 was between 0.6 °C and 9.2 °C and averaged 4.2 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 7.5 hours of sunshine (78%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
May 28 » Near Callander, Ontario, Canada, the Dionne quintuplets are born to Oliva and Elzire Dionne; they will be the first quintuplets to survive infancy.
June 15 » The United States Great Smoky Mountains National Park is founded.
July 2 » The Night of the Long Knives ends with the death of Ernst Röhm.
September 26 » The ocean liner RMSQueen Mary is launched.
December 1 » In the Soviet Union, Politburo member Sergey Kirov is assassinated. Stalin uses the incident as a pretext to initiate the Great Purge.
Day of death May 17, 2017
The temperature on May 17, 2017 was between 14.4 °C and 28.4 °C and averaged 22.3 °C. There was 7.7 hours of sunshine (49%). The almost completely overcast 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.
In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, October 26, 2017 to present the cabinet Rutte III, with Mark Rutte (VVD) as prime minister.
February 23 » The Turkish-backed Free Syrian Army captures Al-Bab from ISIL.
March 22 » A terrorist attack in London near the Houses of Parliament leaves four people dead and at least 20 injured.
May 31 » A car bomb explodes in a crowded intersection in Kabul near the German embassy during rush hour, killing over 90 and injuring 463.
June 12 » American student Otto Warmbier returns home in a coma after spending 17 months in a North Korean prison and dies a week later.
August 25 » Hurricane Harvey makes landfall in Texas as a powerful Category4 hurricane, the strongest hurricane to make landfall in the United States since 2004. Over the next few days, the storm causes catastrophic flooding throughout much of eastern Texas, killing 106 people and causing $125billion in damage.
December 4 » The Pontiac Silverdome in Pontiac, Michigan is imploded, one day after failing to be imploded.
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