The temperature on November 24, 1924 was between -1.4 °C and 5.8 °C and averaged 2.4 °C. There was 1.5 hours of sunshine (18%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from September 19, 1922 to August 4, 1925 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck II, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
February 5 » The Royal Greenwich Observatory begins broadcasting the hourly time signals known as the Greenwich Time Signal.
February 8 » Capital punishment: The first state execution in the United States by gas chamber takes place in Nevada.
February 14 » The Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company changes its name to International Business Machines Corporation (IBM).
April 1 » Adolf Hitler is sentenced to five years imprisonment for his participation in the "Beer Hall Putsch" but spends only nine months in jail.
July 24 » Themistoklis Sofoulis becomes Prime Minister of Greece.
October 27 » The Uzbek SSR is founded in the Soviet Union.
Day of death January 21, 1995
The temperature on January 21, 1995 was between 4.3 °C and 8.6 °C and averaged 6.1 °C. There was 4.6 mm of rain during 3.6 hours. There was 3.1 hours of sunshine (36%). The 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, August 22, 1994 to Monday, August 3, 1998 the cabinet a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabinet-Kok_I" class="extern">Kok I, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
February 3 » Astronaut Eileen Collins becomes the first woman to pilot the Space Shuttle as mission STS-63 gets underway from Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
May 1 » Croatian War of Independence: Croatian forces launch Operation Flash.
July 9 » The Navaly church bombing is carried out by the Sri Lanka Air Force killing 125 Tamil civilian refugees.
October 25 » A commuter train slams into a school bus in Fox River Grove, Illinois, killing seven students.
November 10 » In Nigeria, playwright and environmental activist Ken Saro-Wiwa, along with eight others from the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (Mosop), are hanged by government forces.
December 21 » The city of Bethlehem passes from Israeli to Palestinian control.
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