The temperature on April 1, 1920 was between 3.4 °C and 11.7 °C and averaged 7.7 °C. There was 3.1 mm of rain. There was 1.2 hours of sunshine (9%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. 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 17 » Alcohol Prohibition begins in the United States as the Volstead Act goes into effect.
February 20 » An earthquake kills between 114 and 130 in Georgia and heavily damages the town of Gori.
May 16 » In Rome, Pope Benedict XV canonizes Joan of Arc.
July 20 » The Greek Army takes control of Silivri after Greece is awarded the city by the Paris Peace Conference; by 1923 Greece effectively lost control to the Turks.
October 25 » After 74 days on hunger strike in Brixton Prison, England, the Sinn Féin Lord Mayor of Cork, Terence MacSwiney dies.
November 28 » Irish War of Independence: Kilmichael Ambush: The Irish Republican Army ambush a convoy of British Auxiliaries and kill seventeen.
Day of death May 17, 1999
The temperature on May 17, 1999 was between 8.0 °C and 17.7 °C and averaged 13.2 °C. There was 9.4 hours of sunshine (60%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. Source: KNMI
February 7 » Crown Prince Abdullah becomes the King of Jordan on the death of his father, King Hussein.
May 3 » Infiltration of Pakistani soldiers on Indian side resulted into the kargil war.
May 24 » The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague, Netherlands indicts Slobodan Milošević and four others for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Kosovo.
August 17 » The 7.6 Mw İzmit earthquake shakes northwestern Turkey with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent), leaving 17,118–17,127 dead and 43,953–50,000 injured.
November 25 » A 5-year-old Cuban boy, Elian Gonzalez, is rescued by fishermen while floating in an inner tube off the Florida coast.
December 26 » The storm Lothar sweeps across Central Europe, killing 137 and causing US$1.3 billion in damage.
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