The temperature on January 28, 1920 was between 5.4 °C and 8.7 °C and averaged 8.0 °C. There was 9.2 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. 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 10 » The Treaty of Versailles takes effect, officially ending World War I.
January 16 » The League of Nations holds its first council meeting in Paris, France.
February 20 » An earthquake kills between 114 and 130 in Georgia and heavily damages the town of Gori.
May 7 » Morecambe Football Club was founded during a meeting at the West View Hotel on the town's promenade.
August 13 » Polish–Soviet War: The Battle of Warsaw begins and will last till August 25. The Red Army is defeated.
November 15 » The Free City of Danzig is established.
Day of death March 7, 2000
The temperature on March 7, 2000 was between 7.5 °C and 12.9 °C and averaged 9.6 °C. There was 3.1 mm of rain during 3.7 hours. There was 1.9 hours of sunshine (17%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
January 31 » Alaska Airlines Flight 261 crash: An MD-83, experiencing horizontal stabilizer problems, crashes in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Point Mugu, California, killing all 88 aboard.
March 17 » Five hundred and thirty members of the Ugandan cult Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God die in a fire, considered to be a mass murder or suicide orchestrated by leaders of the cult. Elsewhere another 248 members are later found dead.
July 10 » EADS, the world's second-largest aerospace group is formed by the merger of Aérospatiale-Matra, DASA, and CASA.
November 15 » A chartered Antonov An-24 crashes after takeoff from Luanda, Angola, killing more than 40 people.
November 15 » Jharkhand officially becomes the 28th state of India, formed from eighteen districts of southern Bihar.
December 15 » The third reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant is shut down.
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