The temperature on February 11, 1917 was between -0.1 °C and 3.8 °C and averaged 1.5 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. 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 24 » World War I: The U.S. ambassador Walter Hines Page to the United Kingdom is given the Zimmermann Telegram, in which Germany pledges to ensure the return of New Mexico, Texas, and Arizona to Mexico if Mexico declares war on the United States.
March 25 » The Georgian Orthodox Church restores its autocephaly abolished by Imperial Russia in 1811.
April 16 » Vladimir Lenin returns to Petrograd, Russia, from exile in Switzerland.
May 26 » Several powerful tornadoes rip through Illinois, including the city of Mattoon.
June 7 » World War I: Battle of Messines: Allied soldiers detonate a series of mines underneath German trenches at Messines Ridge, killing 10,000 German troops.
November 26 » The Manchester Guardian publishes the 1916 secret Sykes-Picot Agreement between the United Kingdom and France.
Day of marriage August 29, 1942
The temperature on August 29, 1942 was between 17.6 °C and 29.2 °C and averaged 22.4 °C. There was 8.4 hours of sunshine (61%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east. Source: KNMI
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.
February 1 » Mao Zedong makes a speech on "Reform in Learning, the Party and Literature", which puts into motion the Yan'an Rectification Movement.
February 10 » World War II: Imperial Japanese Army capture Banjarmasin, capital of Borneo in Dutch East Indies.
February 14 » Battle of Pasir Panjang contributes to the fall of Singapore.
February 20 » Lieutenant Edward O'Hare becomes America's first World War II flying ace.
June 21 » World War II: A Japanese submarine surfaces near the Columbia River in Oregon, firing 17 shells at Fort Stevens in one of only a handful of attacks by Japan against the United States mainland.
October 11 » World War II: Off Guadalcanal, United States Navy ships intercept and defeat a Japanese force.
Day of death February 28, 1988
The temperature on February 28, 1988 was between 0.5 °C and 6.5 °C and averaged 3.5 °C. There was 5.3 mm of rain during 4.6 hours. There was 0.5 hours of sunshine (5%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, November 4, 1986 to Tuesday, November 7, 1989 the cabinet Lubbers II, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
February 27 » Sumgait pogrom: The Armenian community in Sumgait, Azerbaijan is targeted in a violent pogrom.
March 25 » The Candle demonstration in Bratislava is the first mass demonstration of the 1980s against the communist regime in Czechoslovakia.
June 1 » European Central Bank is founded in Brussels.
June 4 » Three cars on a train carrying hexogen to Kazakhstan explode in Arzamas, Gorky Oblast, USSR, killing 91 and injuring about 1,500.
July 6 » The Piper Alpha drilling platform in the North Sea is destroyed by explosions and fires. One hundred sixty-seven oil workers are killed, making it the world's worst offshore oil disaster in terms of direct loss of life.
September 29 » NASA launches STS-26, the first mission since the Challenger disaster.
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