The temperature on May 18, 1916 was between 5.1 °C and 21.1 °C and averaged 13.6 °C. There was 12.3 hours of sunshine (78%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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.
February 21 » World War I: In France, the Battle of Verdun begins.
May 6 » Twenty-one Lebanese nationalists are executed in Martyrs' Square, Beirut by Djemal Pasha.
September 3 » World War I: Leefe Robinson destroys the German airship Schütte-Lanz SL 11 over Cuffley, north of London; the first German airship to be shot down on British soil.
November 7 » Jeannette Rankin is the first woman elected to the United States Congress.
November 18 » World War I: First Battle of the Somme: In France, British Expeditionary Force commander Douglas Haig calls off the battle which started on July 1, 1916.
November 21 » Mines from SM U-73 sink the HMHS Britannic, the largest ship lost in the First World War.
Day of marriage August 28, 1941
The temperature on August 28, 1941 was between 10.2 °C and 18.5 °C and averaged 14.4 °C. There was 1.1 mm of rain during 1.3 hours. There was 1.7 hours of sunshine (12%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from September 3, 1940 to July 27, 1941 the cabinet Gerbrandy I, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
In The Netherlands , there was from July 27, 1941 to February 23, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy II, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
August 15 » Corporal Josef Jakobs is executed by firing squad at the Tower of London at 07:12, making him the last person to be executed at the Tower for espionage.
August 31 » World War II: Serbian paramilitary forces defeat Germans in the Battle of Loznica.
November 13 » World War II: The aircraft carrier HMSArk Royal is torpedoed by U-81, sinking the following day.
December 9 » World War II: China, Cuba, Guatemala, and the Philippine Commonwealth declare war on Germany and Japan.
December 11 » World War II: Poland declares war on the Empire of Japan.
December 14 » World War II: Japan signs a treaty of alliance with Thailand.
Day of death February 4, 2008
The temperature on February 4, 2008 was between 3.3 °C and 8.3 °C and averaged 5.9 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 1.0 hours. There was 1.6 hours of sunshine (17%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. 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 24 » Fidel Castro retires as the President of Cuba and the Council of Ministers after 32 years. He remains as head of the Communist Party for another three years.
March 15 » Stockpiles of obsolete ammunition explode at an ex-military ammunition depot in the village of Gërdec, Albania, killing 26 people.
March 23 » Official opening of Rajiv Gandhi International Airport in Hyderabad, India
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.
September 13 » Hurricane Ike makes landfall on the Texas Gulf Coast of the United States, causing heavy damage to Galveston Island, Houston, and surrounding areas.
December 11 » Bernard Madoff is arrested and charged with securities fraud in a $50 billion Ponzi scheme.
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