The temperature on March 2, 1914 was between -1.3 °C and 7.2 °C and averaged 2.7 °C. There was 2.5 mm of rain. There was 2.3 hours of sunshine (21%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. 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.
August 15 » World War I: The First Russian Army, led by Paul von Rennenkampf, enters East Prussia.
September 3 » William, Prince of Albania leaves the country after just six months due to opposition to his rule.
September 16 » World War I: The Siege of Przemyśl (present-day Poland) begins.
November 1 » World War I: The Australian Imperial Force (AIF) departed by ship in a single convoy from Albany, Western Australia bound for Egypt.
November 13 » Zaian War: Berber tribesmen inflict the heaviest defeat of French forces in Morocco at the Battle of El Herri.
November 26 » HMS Bulwark was destroyed by a large internal explosion with the loss of 741 men near Sheerness.
Day of marriage February 13, 1936
The temperature on February 13, 1936 was between -4.7 °C and 4.0 °C and averaged 0.8 °C. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest. Source: KNMI
May 5 » Italian troops occupy Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
May 21 » Sada Abe is arrested after wandering the streets of Tokyo for days with her dead lover's severed genitals in her handbag. Her story soon becomes one of Japan's most notorious scandals.
July 19 » Spanish Civil War: The CNT and UGT call a general strike in Spain - mobilizing workers' militias against the Nationalist forces.
October 4 » The British Union of Fascists and various anti-fascist organizations violently clash in the Battle of Cable Street.
October 9 » Boulder Dam (later Hoover Dam) begins to generate electricity and transmit it to Los Angeles.
December 5 » The Soviet Union adopts a new constitution and the Kirghiz Soviet Socialist Republic is established as a full Union Republic of the USSR.
Day of death August 24, 1971
The temperature on August 24, 1971 was between 11.3 °C and 22.1 °C and averaged 16.9 °C. There was 13.1 hours of sunshine (92%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. Source: KNMI
February 8 » South Vietnamese ground troops launch an incursion into Laos to try to cut off the Ho Chi Minh trail and stop communist infiltration.
February 24 » The All India Forward Bloc holds an emergency central committee meeting after its chairman, Hemantha Kumar Bose, is killed three days earlier. P.K. Mookiah Thevar is appointed as the new chairman.
March 7 » Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, political leader of then East Pakistan (present day-Bangladesh), delivers his historic 7th March speech in the Racecourse Field (Now Suhrawardy Udyan) in Dhaka.
June 13 » Vietnam War: The New York Times begins publication of the Pentagon Papers.
July 31 » Apollo program: Apollo 15 astronauts become the first to ride in a lunar rover.
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