The temperature on July 17, 1908 was between 12.1 °C and 18.9 °C and averaged 15.7 °C. There was 5.3 mm of rain. There was 1.8 hours of sunshine (11%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. 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.
In The Netherlands , there was from February 12, 1908 to August 29, 1913 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. Th. Heemskerk (AR) as prime minister.
January 11 » Grand Canyon National Monument is created.
January 28 » Members of the Portuguese Republican Party fail in their attempted coup d'état against the administrative dictatorship of Prime Minister João Franco.
April 11 » SMSBlücher, the last armored cruiser to be built by the Imperial German Navy, is launched.
October 13 » Margaret Travers Symons bursts into the UK parliament and became the first woman to speak there.
November 3 » William Howard Taft is elected the 27th President of the United States.
December 2 » Puyi becomes Emperor of China at the age of two.
Day of death July 18, 2001
The temperature on July 18, 2001 was between 13.8 °C and 20.0 °C and averaged 15.7 °C. There was 12.7 mm of rain during 8.0 hours. There was 2.5 hours of sunshine (15%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. Source: KNMI
May 3 » The United States loses its seat on the U.N. Human Rights Commission for the first time since the commission was formed in 1947.
May 25 » Erik Weihenmayer becomes the first blind person to reach the summit of Mount Everest, in the Himalayas, with Dr. Sherman Bull.
July 2 » The AbioCor self-contained artificial heart is first implanted.
September 10 » Antônio da Costa Santos, mayor of Campinas, Brazil is assassinated.
September 18 » First mailing of anthrax letters from Trenton, New Jersey in the 2001 anthrax attacks.
September 21 » America: A Tribute to Heroes is broadcast by over 35 network and cable channels, raising over $200 million for the victims of the September 11 attacks.
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