The temperature on November 12, 1914 was between 4.0 °C and 10.1 °C and averaged 6.5 °C. There was 4.2 mm of rain. There was 3.6 hours of sunshine (40%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the northwest. 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 9 » The Phi Beta Sigma fraternity is founded by African-American students at Howard University in Washington D.C., United States.
March 1 » The Republic of China joins the Universal Postal Union.
March 8 » First flights (for the Royal Thai Air Force) at Don Mueang International Airport in Bangkok.
April 24 » The Franck–Hertz experiment, a pillar of quantum mechanics, is presented to the German Physical Society.
July 11 » USSNevada(BB-36) is launched.
September 3 » World War I: Start of the Battle of Grand Couronné, a German assault against French positions on high ground near the city of Nancy.
Day of death July 29, 1958
The temperature on July 29, 1958 was between 13.9 °C and 20.7 °C and averaged 17.3 °C. There was 3.7 mm of rain during 1.9 hours. There was 5.5 hours of sunshine (35%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
January 13 » The Moroccan Army of Liberation ambushes a Spanish patrol in the Battle of Edchera.
March 16 » The Ford Motor Company produces its 50 millionth automobile, the Thunderbird, averaging almost a million cars a year since the company's founding.
March 27 » Nikita Khrushchev becomes Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union.
July 1 » Flooding of Canada's Saint Lawrence Seaway begins.
September 14 » The first two German post-war rockets, designed by the German engineer Ernst Mohr, reach the upper atmosphere.
October 4 » The current constitution of France is adopted.
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