The temperature on September 14, 1917 was between 8.8 °C and 17.3 °C and averaged 13.4 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 7.2 hours of sunshine (56%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. 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 8 » International Women's Day protests in St. Petersburg mark the beginning of the February Revolution (February 23rd in the Julian calendar).
March 16 » World War I: A German auxiliary cruiser is sunk in the Action of 16 March 1917.
May 19 » The Norwegian football club Rosenborg BK is founded.
June 23 » In a game against the Washington Senators, Boston Red Sox pitcher Ernie Shore retires 26 batters in a row after replacing Babe Ruth, who had been ejected for punching the umpire.
November 25 » World War I: German forces defeat Portuguese army of about 1,200 at Negomano on the border of modern-day Mozambique and Tanzania.
December 12 » Father Edward J. Flanagan founds Boys Town as a farm village for wayward boys.
Day of death May 1, 1962
The temperature on May 1, 1962 was between -2.7 °C and 9.3 °C and averaged 5.0 °C. There was 3.4 hours of sunshine (23%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest. Source: KNMI
March 16 » A Flying Tiger Line Super Constellation disappears in the western Pacific Ocean, with all 107 aboard missing and presumed dead.
October 3 » Project Mercury: Wally Schirra in Sigma 7 launched from Cape Canaveral for a six-orbit flight.
October 25 » Cuban Missile Crisis: Adlai Stevenson shows the United Nations Security Council reconnaissance photographs of Soviet ballistic missiles in Cuba.
November 11 » Kuwait's National Assembly ratifies the Constitution of Kuwait.
December 8 » Workers at four New York City newspapers (this later increases to nine) go on strike for 114 days.
December 25 » The Soviet Union conducts its final above-ground nuclear weapon test, in anticipation of the 1963 Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.
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