The temperature on August 16, 1907 was between 10.1 °C and 18.9 °C and averaged 13.8 °C. There was 1.6 mm of rain. There was 3.9 hours of sunshine (27%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. 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.
February 5 » Belgian chemist Leo Baekeland announces the creation of Bakelite, the world's first synthetic plastic.
April 15 » Triangle Fraternity is founded at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.
June 14 » The National Association for Women's Suffrage succeeds in getting Norwegian women the right to vote in parliamentary elections.
September 26 » Four months after the 1907 Imperial Conference, New Zealand and Newfoundland are promoted from colonies to dominions within the British Empire.
November 9 » The Cullinan Diamond is presented to King Edward VII on his birthday.
December 14 » The Thomas W. Lawson, the largest ever ship without a heat engine, runs aground and founders near the Hellweather's Reef within the Isles of Scilly in a gale. The pilot and 15 seamen die.
Day of marriage May 1, 1944
The temperature on May 1, 1944 was between 6.2 °C and 17.5 °C and averaged 11.6 °C. There was 8.4 hours of sunshine (56%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
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.
February 22 » World War II: American aircraft mistakenly bomb the Dutch towns of Nijmegen, Arnhem, Enschede and Deventer, resulting in 800 dead in Nijmegen alone.
March 18 » Mount Vesuvius in Italy erupts, killing 26 people, causing thousands to flee their homes, and destroying dozens of Allied bombers.
July 3 » World War II: The Minsk Offensive clears German troops from the city.
August 21 » Dumbarton Oaks Conference, prelude to the United Nations, begins.
September 6 » World War II: Soviet forces capture the city of Tartu, Estonia.
September 11 » World War II: RAF bombing raid on Darmstadt and the following firestorm kill 11,500.
Day of death August 13, 1992
The temperature on August 13, 1992 was between 13.4 °C and 19.6 °C and averaged 15.4 °C. There was 23.4 mm of rain during 8.7 hours. There was 3.8 hours of sunshine (26%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, November 7, 1989 to Monday, August 22, 1994 the cabinet Lubbers III, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
March 17 » Israeli Embassy attack in Buenos Aires: Car bomb attack kills 29 and injures 242.
July 23 » A Vatican commission, led by Joseph Ratzinger, establishes that limiting certain rights of homosexual people and non-married couples is not equivalent to discrimination on grounds of race or gender.
August 12 » Canada, Mexico and the United States announce completion of negotiations for the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
August 24 » Hurricane Andrew makes landfall in Homestead, Florida as a Category5 hurricane, causing up to $25billion (1992 USD) in damages.
October 2 » Military police storm the Carandiru Penitentiary in São Paulo, Brazil during a prison riot. The resulting massacre leaves 111 prisoners dead.
October 4 » The Rome General Peace Accords end a 16-year civil war in Mozambique.
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