The temperature on April 3, 1916 was between 1.4 °C and 21.4 °C and averaged 11.1 °C. There was 10.6 hours of sunshine (81%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. 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 10 » World War I: In the Erzurum Offensive, Russia defeats the Ottoman Empire.
January 12 » Both Oswald Boelcke and Max Immelmann, for achieving eight aerial victories each over Allied aircraft, receive the German Empire's highest military award, the Pour le Mérite as the first German aviators to earn it.
September 6 » The first self-service grocery store Piggly Wiggly was opened in Memphis, Tennessee by Clarence Saunders.
November 7 » Jeannette Rankin is the first woman elected to the United States Congress.
November 13 » World War I: Prime Minister of Australia Billy Hughes is expelled from the Labor Party over his support for conscription.
December 30 » Russian mystic and advisor to the Tsar Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin was murdered by a loyalist group led by Prince Felix Yusupov. His frozen, partially-trussed body was discovered in a Moscow river three days later.
Day of marriage December 18, 1935
The temperature on December 18, 1935 was between -1.1 °C and 4.0 °C and averaged 1.3 °C. There was 1.1 mm of rain during 1.0 hours. There was 2.9 hours of sunshine (37%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
February 26 » Robert Watson-Watt carries out a demonstration near Daventry which leads directly to the development of radar in the United Kingdom.
February 28 » DuPont scientist Wallace Carothers invents nylon.
June 10 » Chaco War ends: A truce is called between Bolivia and Paraguay who had been fighting since 1932.
June 18 » Police in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, clash with striking longshoremen, resulting in a total of 60 injuries and 24 arrests.
July 20 » Switzerland: A Royal Dutch Airlines plane en route from Milan to Frankfurt crashes into a Swiss mountain, killing thirteen.
December 30 » The Italian Air Force bombs a Swedish Red Cross hospital during the Second Italo-Abyssinian War.
Day of death October 29, 2005
The temperature on October 29, 2005 was between 13.5 °C and 19.7 °C and averaged 16.5 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 3.5 hours of sunshine (36%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, May 27, 2003 to Friday, July 7, 2006 the cabinet Balkenende II, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
January 6 » A train collision in Graniteville, South Carolina, United States, releases about 60 tons of chlorine gas.
February 1 » King Gyanendra of Nepal carries out a coup d'état to capture the democracy, becoming Chairman of the Councils of ministers.
February 22 » The 6.4 Mw Zarand earthquake shakes the Kerman Province of Iran with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe), leaving 612 people dead and 1,411 injured.
April 14 » The Oregon Supreme Court nullifies marriage licenses issued to same-sex couples a year earlier by Multnomah County.
April 24 » Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger is inaugurated as the 265th Pope of the Catholic Church taking the name Pope Benedict XVI.
May 21 » The tallest roller coaster in the world, Kingda Ka opens at Six Flags Great Adventure in Jackson Township, New Jersey.
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