The temperature on May 2, 1916 was between 6.4 °C and 19.9 °C and averaged 13.3 °C. There was 1.1 mm of rain. There was 9.1 hours of sunshine (61%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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.
January 29 » World War I: Paris is first bombed by German zeppelins.
September 7 » US federal employees win the right to Workers' compensation by Federal Employers Liability Act (39 Stat. 742; 5 U.S.C. 751)
September 15 » World War I: Tanks are used for the first time in battle, at the Battle of the Somme.
November 21 » Mines from SM U-73 sink the HMHS Britannic, the largest ship lost in the First World War.
December 6 » World War I: The Central Powers capture Bucharest.
December 29 » A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, the first novel by James Joyce, was first published as a book by an American publishing house B. W. Huebschis after it had been serialized in The Egoist (1914–15).
Day of death March 29, 1997
The temperature on March 29, 1997 was between 4.6 °C and 10.5 °C and averaged 7.5 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain during 0.2 hours. There was 6.2 hours of sunshine (49%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest. 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.
April 18 » The Red River flood begins and soon overwhelms the city of Grand Forks, North Dakota. Fire breaks out and spreads in downtown Grand Forks, but high water levels hamper efforts to reach the fire, leading to the destruction of 11 buildings.
April 22 » Haouch Khemisti massacre in Algeria where 93 villagers are killed.
May 15 » The Space Shuttle Atlantis launches on STS-84 to dock with the Russian space station Mir.
October 4 » The second largest cash robbery in U.S. history occurs in North Carolina
November 27 » Twenty-five people are killed in the second Souhane massacre in Algeria.
December 27 » Protestant paramilitary leader Billy Wright is assassinated in Northern Ireland, United Kingdom.
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