The temperature on July 20, 1908 was between 13.5 °C and 19.3 °C and averaged 15.8 °C. There was 6.0 hours of sunshine (37%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. 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.
January 30 » Indian pacifist and leader Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi is released from prison by Jan C. Smuts after being tried and sentenced to two months in jail earlier in the month.
April 8 » H. H. Asquith of the Liberal Party takes office as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, succeeding Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman.
April 14 » Hauser Dam, a steel dam on the Missouri River in Montana, U.S., fails, sending a surge of water 25 to 30 feet (7.6 to 9.1m) high downstream.
May 26 » The first major commercial oil strike in the Middle East was made at Masjed Soleyman in southwest Persia. The rights to the resource were quickly acquired by the Anglo-Persian Oil Company.
July 23 » The Second Constitution accepted by the Ottomans.
November 28 » A mine explosion in Marianna, Pennsylvania, kills 154 men, leaving only one survivor.
Day of marriage November 5, 1935
The temperature on November 5, 1935 was between 7.4 °C and 11.2 °C and averaged 8.8 °C. There was 2.6 mm of rain during 3.6 hours. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. Source: KNMI
April 23 » The Polish Constitution of 1935 is adopted.
June 10 » Dr. Robert Smith takes his last drink, and Alcoholics Anonymous is founded in Akron, Ohio, United States, by him and Bill Wilson.
June 18 » Police in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, clash with striking longshoremen, resulting in a total of 60 injuries and 24 arrests.
September 17 » The Niagara Gorge Railroad ceases operations after a rockslide.
November 9 » The Congress of Industrial Organizations is founded in Atlantic City, New Jersey, by eight trade unions belonging to the American Federation of Labor.
December 12 » Lebensborn Project, a Nazi reproduction program, is founded by Heinrich Himmler.
Day of death December 23, 2001
The temperature on December 23, 2001 was between -6.8 °C and -0.4 °C and averaged -2.6 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 6.1 hours of sunshine (79%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
September 9 » Ahmad Shah Massoud, leader of the Northern Alliance, is assassinated in Afghanistan by two al-Qaeda assassins who claimed to be Arab journalists wanting an interview.
September 18 » First mailing of anthrax letters from Trenton, New Jersey in the 2001 anthrax attacks.
October 1 » Militants attack the state legislature building in Kashmir, killing 38.
November 12 » War in Afghanistan: Taliban forces abandon Kabul, ahead of advancing Afghan Northern Alliance troops.
November 30 » Gary Ridgway is apprehended and charged with four murders as the Green River Killer.
December 19 » A record high barometric pressure of 1085.6 hPa (32.06 inHg) is recorded at Tosontsengel, Khövsgöl, Mongolia.
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