The temperature on October 21, 1917 was between -0.2 °C and 10.9 °C and averaged 5.8 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. 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.
March 11 » World War I: Mesopotamian campaign: Baghdad falls to Anglo-Indian forces commanded by General Stanley Maude.
March 26 » World War I: First Battle of Gaza: British troops are halted after 17,000 Turks block their advance.
April 16 » Vladimir Lenin returns to Petrograd, Russia, from exile in Switzerland.
May 26 » Several powerful tornadoes rip through Illinois, including the city of Mattoon.
July 12 » The Bisbee Deportation occurs as vigilantes kidnap and deport nearly 1,300 striking miners and others from Bisbee, Arizona.
December 6 » Halifax Explosion: A munitions explosion near Halifax, Nova Scotia kills more than 1,900 people in the largest artificial explosion up to that time.
Day of death May 4, 1999
The temperature on May 4, 1999 was between 6.3 °C and 19.1 °C and averaged 13.1 °C. There was 6.0 hours of sunshine (40%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. Source: KNMI
January 22 » Australian missionary Graham Staines and his two sons are burned alive by radical Hindus while sleeping in their car in Eastern India.
May 25 » The United States House of Representatives releases the Cox Report which details the People's Republic of China's nuclear espionage against the U.S. over the prior two decades.
November 11 » The House of Lords Act is given Royal Assent, restricting membership of the British House of Lords by virtue of a hereditary peerage.
November 25 » A 5-year-old Cuban boy, Elian Gonzalez, is rescued by fishermen while floating in an inner tube off the Florida coast.
December 21 » Cubana de Aviación Flight 1216 overshoots the runway at La Aurora International Airport, killing 18.
December 26 » The storm Lothar sweeps across Central Europe, killing 137 and causing US$1.3 billion in damage.
Day of burial May 10, 1999
The temperature on May 10, 1999 was between 10.6 °C and 19.4 °C and averaged 14.8 °C. There was 6.2 mm of rain during 1.6 hours. There was 3.5 hours of sunshine (23%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
February 24 » China Southwest Airlines Flight 4509, a Tupolev Tu-154 aircraft, crashes on approach to Wenzhou Longwan International Airport in Wenzhou, Zhejiang, China. All 61 people on board are killed.
May 7 » Pope John Paul II travels to Romania, becoming the first pope to visit a predominantly Eastern Orthodox country since the Great Schism in 1054.
May 29 » Space Shuttle Discovery completes the first docking with the International Space Station.
October 26 » Britain's House of Lords votes to end the right of hereditary peers to vote in Britain's upper chamber of Parliament.
November 19 » Shenzhou 1: The People's Republic of China launches its first Shenzhou spacecraft.
December 31 » The U.S. government hands control of the Panama Canal (as well all the adjacent land to the canal known as the Panama Canal Zone) to Panama. This act complied with the signing of the 1977 Torrijos–Carter Treaties.
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