The temperature on October 24, 1917 was between 2.4 °C and 9.2 °C and averaged 5.7 °C. There was 7.7 mm of rain. There was 4.1 hours of sunshine (40%). 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 31 » World War I: Germany announces that its U-boats will resume unrestricted submarine warfare after a two-year hiatus.
February 24 » World War I: The U.S. ambassador Walter Hines Page to the United Kingdom is given the Zimmermann Telegram, in which Germany pledges to ensure the return of New Mexico, Texas, and Arizona to Mexico if Mexico declares war on the United States.
March 25 » The Georgian Orthodox Church restores its autocephaly abolished by Imperial Russia in 1811.
July 17 » King George V issues a Proclamation stating that the male line descendants of the British Royal Family will bear the surname Windsor.
August 18 » A Great Fire in Thessaloniki, Greece destroys 32% of the city leaving 70,000 individuals homeless.
December 12 » Father Edward J. Flanagan founds Boys Town as a farm village for wayward boys.
Day of death January 1, 2002
The temperature on January 1, 2002 was between -1.4 °C and 1.2 °C and averaged -0.2 °C. There was 2.6 hours of sunshine (33%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, August 3, 1998 to Monday, July 22, 2002 the cabinet Kok II, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, July 22, 2002 to Tuesday, May 27, 2003 the cabinet Balkenende I, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
April 12 » A suicide bomber blows herself up at the entrance to Jerusalem's Mahane Yehuda Market, killing seven people and wounding 104.
May 7 » A China Northern Airlines MD-82 plunges into the Yellow Sea, killing 112 people.
June 14 » Near-Earth asteroid 2002 MN misses the Earth by 75,000 miles (121,000km), about one-third of the distance between the Earth and the Moon.
July 1 » Bashkirian Airlines Flight 2937, a Tupolev Tu-154, and DHL Flight 611, a Boeing 757, collide in mid-air over Überlingen, southern Germany, killing all 71 on board both planes.
September 9 » The Rafiganj train wreck happened in Bihar, India.
December 27 » Two truck bombs kill 72 and wound 200 at the pro-Moscow headquarters of the Chechen government in Grozny, Chechnya, Russia.
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