The temperature on February 8, 1919 was between -12.9 °C and -1.5 °C and averaged -7.9 °C. There was 8.4 hours of sunshine (89%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from September 9, 1918 to September 18, 1922 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck I, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
January 5 » The German Workers' Party, which would become the Nazi Party, is founded in Munich.
February 26 » President Woodrow Wilson signs an act of Congress establishing the Grand Canyon National Park.
March 1 » March 1st Movement begins in Korea under Japanese rule.
June 14 » John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown depart from St. John's, Newfoundland on the first nonstop transatlantic flight.
June 21 » The Royal Canadian Mounted Police fire a volley into a crowd of unemployed war veterans, killing two, during the Winnipeg general strike.
December 3 » After nearly 20 years of planning and construction, including two collapses causing 89 deaths, the Quebec Bridge opens to traffic.
Day of death August 8, 2001
The temperature on August 8, 2001 was between 13.7 °C and 19.5 °C and averaged 16.1 °C. There was 13.4 mm of rain during 4.8 hours. There was 4.5 hours of sunshine (30%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
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January 16 » Congolese President Laurent-Désiré Kabila is assassinated by one of his own bodyguards.
January 16 » US President Bill Clinton awards former President Theodore Roosevelt a posthumous Medal of Honor for his service in the Spanish–American War.
February 11 » A Dutch programmer launched the Anna Kournikova virus infecting millions of emails via a trick photo of the tennis star.
October 15 » NASA's Galileo spacecraft passes within 112 miles of Jupiter's moon Io.
November 14 » A magnitude 7.8 earthquake strikes a remote part of the Tibetan plateau. It had the longest known surface rupture recorded on land (~400km) and is the best documented example of a supershear earthquake.
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