The temperature on September 19, 1920 was between 5.9 °C and 16.3 °C and averaged 12.1 °C. There was 6.4 hours of sunshine (51%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from September 9, 1918 to September 18, 1922 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck I, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
January 26 » Former Ford Motor Company executive Henry Leland launches the Lincoln Motor Company which he later sold to his former employer.
May 2 » The first game of the Negro National League baseball is played in Indianapolis.
May 7 » Morecambe Football Club was founded during a meeting at the West View Hotel on the town's promenade.
August 25 » Polish–Soviet War: Battle of Warsaw, which began on August 13, ends with the Red Army's defeat.
August 26 » The 19th amendment to United States Constitution takes effect, giving women the right to vote.
November 15 » First assembly of the League of Nations is held in Geneva, Switzerland.
Day of death August 8, 2008
The temperature on August 8, 2008 was between 12.1 °C and 20.6 °C and averaged 16.7 °C. There was 10.4 mm of rain during 1.2 hours. There was 4.4 hours of sunshine (29%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, February 22, 2007 to Thursday, October 14, 2010 the cabinet Balkenende IV, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
January 18 » The Euphronios Krater is unveiled in Rome after being returned to Italy by the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
February 29 » Misha Defonseca admits to fabricating her memoir, Misha: A Mémoire of the Holocaust Years, in which she claims to have lived with a pack of wolves in the woods during the Holocaust.
April 6 » The 2008 Egyptian general strike starts led by Egyptian workers later to be adopted by April 6 Youth Movement and Egyptian activists.
August 17 » American swimmer Michael Phelps becomes the first person to win eight gold medals at one Olympic Games.
November 27 » XL Airways Germany Flight 888T: An Airbus A320 performing a flight test crashes near the French commune of Canet-en-Roussillon, killing all seven people on board.
December 14 » Muntadhar al-Zaidi throws his shoes at then-U.S. President George W. Bush during a press conference in Baghdad, Iraq.
Day of burial August 13, 2008
The temperature on August 13, 2008 was between 13.4 °C and 21.2 °C and averaged 16.7 °C. There was 3.5 mm of rain during 2.2 hours. There was 6.1 hours of sunshine (41%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, February 22, 2007 to Thursday, October 14, 2010 the cabinet Balkenende IV, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
February 5 » A major tornado outbreak across the Southern United States kills 57.
May 25 » NASA's Phoenix lander touches down in the Green Valley region of Mars to search for environments suitable for water and microbial life.
June 27 » In a highly scrutinized election President of Zimbabwe Robert Mugabe is re-elected in a landslide after his opponent Morgan Tsvangirai had withdrawn a week earlier, citing violence against his party's supporters.
July 1 » Riots erupt in Mongolia in response to allegations of fraud surrounding the 2008 legislative elections.
July 31 » East Coast Jets Flight 81 crashes near Owatonna Degner Regional Airport in Owatonna, Minnesota, killing all eight people on board.
September 24 » Thabo Mbeki resigns as president of South Africa
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