The temperature on May 16, 1916 was between 7.5 °C and 16.5 °C and averaged 12.6 °C. There was 7.5 hours of sunshine (48%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. 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.
August 17 » World War I: Romania signs a secret treaty with the Entente Powers. According to the treaty, Romania agreed to join the war on the Allied side.
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.
September 7 » US federal employees win the right to Workers' compensation by Federal Employers Liability Act (39 Stat. 742; 5 U.S.C. 751)
October 16 » Margaret Sanger opens the first family planning clinic in the United States.
November 19 » Samuel Goldwyn and Edgar Selwyn establish Goldwyn Pictures.
November 21 » Mines from SM U-73 sink the HMHS Britannic, the largest ship lost in the First World War.
Day of death May 6, 1970
The temperature on May 6, 1970 was between 9.5 °C and 22.0 °C and averaged 16.5 °C. There was 11.1 hours of sunshine (73%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east. Source: KNMI
January 15 » Nigerian Civil War: Biafran rebels surrender following an unsuccessful 32-month fight for independence from Nigeria.
March 4 » French submarine Eurydice explodes underwater, resulting in the loss of the entire 57-man crew.
May 11 » The 1970 Lubbock tornado kills 26 and causes $250million in damage.
September 11 » The Dawson's Field hijackers release 88 of their hostages. The remaining hostages, mostly Jews and Israeli citizens, are held until September 25.
October 2 » An aircraft carrying the Wichita State University football team, administrators, and supporters crashes in Colorado, killing 31 people.
October 8 » Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn wins the Nobel Prize in literature.
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