The temperature on November 20, 1916 was between 3.2 °C and 9.6 °C and averaged 6.3 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. There was 2.4 hours of sunshine (28%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the south. 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 29 » World War I: Paris is first bombed by German zeppelins.
February 21 » World War I: In France, the Battle of Verdun begins.
February 24 » The Governor-General of Korea establishes a clinic called Jahyewon in Sorokdo to segregate Hansen's disease patients.
April 9 » World War I: The Battle of Verdun: German forces launch their third offensive of the battle.
August 14 » Romania declares war on Austria-Hungary.
November 7 » Jeannette Rankin is the first woman elected to the United States Congress.
Day of marriage January 27, 1941
The temperature on January 27, 1941 was between -4.8 °C and -1.4 °C and averaged -3.2 °C. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from September 3, 1940 to July 27, 1941 the cabinet Gerbrandy I, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
In The Netherlands , there was from July 27, 1941 to February 23, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy II, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
May 6 » The first flight of the Republic P-47 Thunderbolt.
June 5 » World War II: Four thousand Chongqing residents are asphyxiated in a bomb shelter during the Bombing of Chongqing.
June 8 » World War II: The Allies commence the Syria-Lebanon Campaign against the possessions of Vichy France in the Levant.
September 22 » The Holocaust in Ukraine: On the Jewish New Year Day, the German SS murders 6,000 Jews in Vinnytsia, Ukraine. Those are the survivors of the previous killings that took place a few days earlier in which about 24,000 Jews were executed.
November 1 » American photographer Ansel Adams takes a picture of a moonrise over the town of Hernandez, New Mexico that would become one of the most famous images in the history of photography.
December 24 » World War II: Kuching is conquered by Japanese forces.
Day of death May 21, 1979
The temperature on May 21, 1979 was between 10.0 °C and 16.6 °C and averaged 12.9 °C. There was 2.6 mm of rain during 0.8 hours. There was 2.5 hours of sunshine (16%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, December 19, 1977 to Friday, September 11, 1981 the cabinet Van Agt I, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA/KVP) as prime minister.
January 16 » The last Iranian Shah flees Iran with his family for good and relocates to Egypt.
February 26 » The Superliner railcar enters revenue service with Amtrak.
June 1 » The first black-led government of Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) in 90 years takes power.
October 14 » The first National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights draws approximately 100,000 people.
November 10 » A 106-car Canadian Pacific freight train carrying explosive and poisonous chemicals from Windsor, Ontario, Canada derails in Mississauga, Ontario, just west of Toronto, causing a massive explosion and the largest peacetime evacuation in Canadian history and one of the largest in North American history.
December 10 » Kaohsiung Incident: Taiwanese pro-democracy demonstrations are suppressed by the KMT dictatorship, and organizers are arrested.
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