The temperature on April 18, 1915 was between -0.6 °C and 11.9 °C and averaged 6.1 °C. There was 11.5 hours of sunshine (82%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. 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.
January 21 » Kiwanis International is founded in Detroit.
January 31 » World War I: Germany is the first to make large-scale use of poison gas in warfare in the Battle of Bolimów against Russia.
March 18 » World War I: During the Battle of Gallipoli, three battleships are sunk during a failed British and French naval attack on the Dardanelles.
May 22 » Lassen Peak erupts with a powerful force, the only volcano besides Mount St. Helens to erupt in the contiguous U.S. during the 20th century.
July 16 » Henry James becomes a British citizen to highlight his commitment to Britain during the first World War.
August 17 » Jewish American Leo Frank is lynched in Marietta, Georgia after a 13-year-old girl is murdered.
Day of marriage June 10, 1937
The temperature on June 10, 1937 was between 15.4 °C and 30.9 °C and averaged 22.8 °C. There was 12.1 hours of sunshine (73%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
April 1 » The Royal New Zealand Air Force is formed as an independent service.
July 7 » The Peel Commission Report recommends the partition of Palestine, which was the first formal recommendation for partition in the history of Palestine.
July 9 » The silent film archives of Fox Film Corporation are destroyed by the 1937 Fox vault fire.
July 22 » New Deal: The United States Senate votes down President Franklin D. Roosevelt's proposal to add more justices to the Supreme Court of the United States.
August 24 » Spanish Civil War: Sovereign Council of Asturias and León is proclaimed in Gijón.
December 12 » Second Sino-Japanese War: USS Panay incident: Japanese aircraft bomb and sink U.S. gunboat USSPanay on the Yangtze river in China.
Day of death June 18, 1996
The temperature on June 18, 1996 was between 10.5 °C and 20.6 °C and averaged 15.3 °C. There was 8.5 hours of sunshine (51%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest. 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 17 » The 8.2 Mw Biak earthquake shakes the Papua province of eastern Indonesia with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe). A large tsunami followed, leaving one-hundred sixty-six people dead or missing and 423 injured.
April 3 » Suspected "Unabomber" Theodore Kaczynski is captured at his Montana cabin in the United States.
May 21 » The ferry MVBukoba sinks in Tanzanian waters on Lake Victoria, killing nearly 1,000.
September 4 » War on Drugs: Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) attack a military base in Guaviare, starting three weeks of guerrilla warfare in which at least 130 Colombians are killed.
October 2 » Aeroperú Flight 603 crashes into the ocean near Peru, killing all 70 people on board.
November 19 » Lt. Gen. Maurice Baril of Canada arrives in Africa to lead a multi-national policing force in Zaire.
Day of burial June 21, 1996
The temperature on June 21, 1996 was between 7.2 °C and 15.0 °C and averaged 11.3 °C. There was 0.8 mm of rain during 1.8 hours. There was 5.5 hours of sunshine (33%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. 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 15 » At the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in China, a Long March 3 rocket, carrying an Intelsat 708, crashes into a rural village after liftoff, killing many people.
April 28 » Whitewater controversy: President Bill Clinton gives a 4½ hour videotaped testimony for the defense.
May 10 » A blizzard strikes Mount Everest, killing eight climbers by the next day.
July 27 » In Atlanta, United States, a pipe bomb explodes at Centennial Olympic Park during the 1996 Summer Olympics.
August 6 » NASA announces that the ALH 84001 meteorite, thought to originate from Mars, contains evidence of primitive life-forms.
October 16 » Eighty-four football fans die and 180 are injured in a massive crush at a match in Guatemala City.
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