The temperature on April 10, 1917 was between -2.4 °C and 3.8 °C and averaged 0.7 °C. There was 3.7 mm of rain. There was 2.9 hours of sunshine (21%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. 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 1 » The Zimmermann Telegram is reprinted in newspapers across the United States after the U.S. government releases its unencrypted text.
March 31 » According to the terms of the Treaty of the Danish West Indies, the islands become American possessions.
April 2 » World War I: United States President Woodrow Wilson asks the U.S. Congress for a declaration of war on Germany.
June 4 » The first Pulitzer Prizes are awarded: Laura E. Richards, Maude H. Elliott, and Florence Hall receive the first Pulitzer for biography (for Julia Ward Howe). Jean Jules Jusserand receives the first Pulitzer for history for his work With Americans of Past and Present Days. Herbert B. Swope receives the first Pulitzer for journalism for his work for the New York World.
August 30 » Vietnamese prison guards led by Trịnh Văn Cấn mutiny at the Thái Nguyên penitentiary against local French authority.
October 15 » World War I: Dutch dancer Mata Hari is executed by France for espionage.
Day of marriage September 9, 1941
The temperature on September 9, 1941 was between 8.1 °C and 17.0 °C and averaged 13.1 °C. There was 1.6 hours of sunshine (12%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west. 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.
January 6 » United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivers his Four Freedoms speech in the State of the Union address.
January 22 » World War II: British and Commonwealth troops capture Tobruk from Italian forces during Operation Compass.
April 15 » In the Belfast Blitz, two-hundred bombers of the German Luftwaffe attack Belfast, killing around one thousand people.
July 4 » Nazi crimes against the Polish nation: Nazi troops massacre Polish scientists and writers in the captured Ukrainian city of Lviv.
August 31 » World War II: Serbian paramilitary forces defeat Germans in the Battle of Loznica.
December 15 » The Holocaust in Ukraine: German troops murder over 15,000 Jews at Drobytsky Yar, a ravine southeast of the city of Kharkiv.
Day of death February 25, 1993
The temperature on February 25, 1993 was between -0.8 °C and 3.8 °C and averaged 1.8 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south. 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.
January 25 » Five people are shot outside the CIA Headquarters in Langley, Virginia. Two are killed and three wounded.
April 1 » Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority is founded in Los Angeles, California, USA.
April 21 » The Supreme Court in La Paz, Bolivia, sentences former dictator Luis García Meza to 30 years in jail without parole for murder, theft, fraud and violating the constitution.
June 25 » Kim Campbell is sworn in as the first female Prime Minister of Canada.
August 9 » The Liberal Democratic Party of Japan loses a 38-year hold on national leadership.
August 20 » After rounds of secret negotiations in Norway, the Oslo Accords are signed, followed by a public ceremony in Washington, D.C. the following month.
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