The temperature on July 28, 1906 was between 12.1 °C and 22.5 °C and averaged 17.2 °C. There was 3.8 hours of sunshine (24%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from August 17, 1905 to February 11, 1908 the cabinet De Meester, with Mr. Th. de Meester (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
January 22 » SSValencia runs aground on rocks on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, killing more than 130.
April 27 » The State Duma of the Russian Empire meets for the first time.
May 2 » Closing ceremony of the Intercalated Games in Athens, Greece.
June 25 » Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania millionaire Harry Thaw shoots and kills prominent architect Stanford White.
June 26 » The first Grand Prix motor race is held at Le Mans.
July 11 » Murder of Grace Brown by Chester Gillette in the United States, inspiration for Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy.
Day of marriage May 24, 1934
The temperature on May 24, 1934 was between 2.7 °C and 17.0 °C and averaged 10.4 °C. There was 10.2 hours of sunshine (63%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest. Source: KNMI
April 12 » The U.S. Auto-Lite strike begins, culminating in a five-day melee between Ohio National Guard troops and 6,000 strikers and picketers.
June 30 » The Night of the Long Knives, Adolf Hitler's violent purge of his political rivals in Germany, takes place.
August 11 » The first civilian prisoners arrive at the Federal prison on Alcatraz Island.
September 1 » The first Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer animated cartoon, The Discontented Canary, is released to movie theatres.
September 21 » A large typhoon hits western Honshū, Japan, killing more than three thousand people.
Day of death July 23, 1941
The temperature on July 23, 1941 was between 8.9 °C and 22.3 °C and averaged 17.2 °C. There was 12.1 hours of sunshine (76%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. 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.
March 17 » In Washington, D.C., the National Gallery of Art is officially opened by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
April 15 » In the Belfast Blitz, two-hundred bombers of the German Luftwaffe attack Belfast, killing around one thousand people.
April 27 » World War II: German troops enter Athens.
May 24 » World War II: In the Battle of the Atlantic, the German Battleship Bismarck sinks then-pride of the Royal Navy, HMSHood, killing all but three crewmen.
October 17 » World War II: The USS Kearny becomes the first US Navy vessel to be torpedoed by a U-boat.
November 19 » World War II: Battle between HMAS Sydney and HSK Kormoran. The two ships sink each other off the coast of Western Australia, with the loss of 645 Australians and about 77 German seamen.
Day of burial July 26, 1941
The temperature on July 26, 1941 was between 17.6 °C and 28.3 °C and averaged 21.9 °C. There was 8.9 hours of sunshine (56%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. 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.
March 17 » In Washington, D.C., the National Gallery of Art is officially opened by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
May 1 » World War II: German forces launch a major attack during the siege of Tobruk.
June 27 » World War II: German troops capture the city of Białystok during Operation Barbarossa.
October 30 » Holocaust: Fifteen hundred Jews from Pidhaytsi are sent by Nazis to Bełżec extermination camp.
December 8 » World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt declares December 7 to be "a date which will live in infamy", after which the U.S. declares war on Japan.
December 17 » World War II: Japanese forces land in Northern Borneo.
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