The temperature on January 15, 1908 was between -3.5 °C and 4.2 °C and averaged 0.1 °C. There was 1.8 hours of sunshine (22%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from August 17, 1905 to February 11, 1908 the cabinet De Meester, with Mr. Th. de Meester (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
In The Netherlands , there was from February 12, 1908 to August 29, 1913 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. Th. Heemskerk (AR) as prime minister.
April 8 » Harvard University votes to establish the Harvard Business School.
April 20 » Opening day of competition in the New South Wales Rugby League.
August 8 » Wilbur Wright makes his first flight at a racecourse at Le Mans, France. It is the Wright Brothers' first public flight.
August 17 » Fantasmagorie, the first animated cartoon, created by Émile Cohl, is shown in Paris, France.
November 22 » The Congress of Manastir establishes the Albanian alphabet.
December 2 » Puyi becomes Emperor of China at the age of two.
Day of death March 23, 1915
The temperature on March 23, 1915 was between 5.7 °C and 12.4 °C and averaged 9.0 °C. There was 1.2 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. 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 17 » Russia defeats Ottoman Turkey in the Battle of Sarikamish during the Caucasus Campaign of World War I.
February 12 » In Washington, D.C., the first stone of the Lincoln Memorial is put into place.
August 15 » A story in New York World newspaper reveals that the Imperial German government had purchased excess phenol from Thomas Edison that could be used to make explosives for the war effort and diverted it to Bayer for aspirin production.
September 5 » The pacifist Zimmerwald Conference begins.
September 30 » World War I: Radoje Ljutovac becomes the first soldier in history to shoot down an enemy aircraft with ground-to-air fire.
November 25 » Albert Einstein presents the field equations of general relativity to the Prussian Academy of Sciences.
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