The temperature on August 31, 1913 was between 13.1 °C and 22.2 °C and averaged 17.1 °C. There was 2.7 hours of sunshine (20%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from February 12, 1908 to August 29, 1913 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. Th. Heemskerk (AR) as prime minister.
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.
January 18 » First Balkan War: A Greek flotilla defeats the Ottoman Navy in the Naval Battle of Lemnos, securing the islands of the Northern Aegean Sea for Greece.
February 19 » Pedro Lascuráin becomes President of Mexico for 45 minutes; this is the shortest term to date of any person as president of any country.
March 18 » King George I of Greece is assassinated in the recently liberated city of Thessaloniki.
June 23 » Second Balkan War: The Greeks defeat the Bulgarians in the Battle of Doiran.
June 25 » American Civil War veterans begin arriving at the Great Reunion of 1913.
September 23 » Roland Garros of France becomes the first to fly in an airplane across the Mediterranean (from St. Raphael in France to Bizerte, Tunisia).
Day of marriage April 20, 1935
The temperature on April 20, 1935 was between 6.9 °C and 18.7 °C and averaged 13.3 °C. There was 7.6 hours of sunshine (54%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east. Source: KNMI
March 21 » Shah of Iran Reza Shah Pahlavi formally asks the international community to call Persia by its native name, Iran.
May 29 » First flight of the Messerschmitt Bf 109 fighter aeroplane.
September 2 » The Labor Day Hurricane, the most intense hurricane to strike the United States, makes landfall at Long Key, Florida, killing at least 400.
November 9 » The Congress of Industrial Organizations is founded in Atlantic City, New Jersey, by eight trade unions belonging to the American Federation of Labor.
December 9 » Student protests in Beiping (now Beijing)'s Tiananmen Square, dispersed by government.
December 17 » First flight of the Douglas DC-3.
Day of death December 25, 1998
The temperature on December 25, 1998 was between 4.5 °C and 10.0 °C and averaged 8.0 °C. There was 7.4 mm of rain during 12.2 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, August 22, 1994 to Monday, August 3, 1998 the cabinet a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabinet-Kok_I" class="extern">Kok I, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, August 3, 1998 to Monday, July 22, 2002 the cabinet Kok II, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
February 6 » Washington National Airport is renamed Ronald Reagan National Airport.
May 26 » The Supreme Court of the United States rules in New Jersey v. New York that Ellis Island, the historic gateway for millions of immigrants, is mainly in the state of New Jersey, not New York.
August 10 » HRH Prince Al-Muhtadee Billah is proclaimed the crown prince of Brunei with a Royal Proclamation.
August 30 » Second Congo War: Armed forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and their Angolan and Zimbabwean allies recapture Matadi and the Inga dams in the western DRC from RCD and Rwandan troops.
September 4 » Google is founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, two students at Stanford University.
October 29 » Space Shuttle Discovery blasts off on STS-95 with 77-year-old John Glenn on board, making him the oldest person to go into space.
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