The temperature on January 18, 1915 was between -1.5 °C and 2.9 °C and averaged 0.4 °C. There was 1.0 mm of rain. There was 2.9 hours of sunshine (35%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. 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 31 » World War I: Germany is the first to make large-scale use of poison gas in warfare in the Battle of Bolimów against Russia.
April 5 » Boxing challenger Jess Willard knocks out Jack Johnson in Havana, Cuba to become the Heavyweight Champion of the World.
July 1 » Leutnant Kurt Wintgens of the then-named German Deutsches Heer's Fliegertruppe army air service achieves the first known aerial victory with a synchronized machine-gun armed fighter plane, the Fokker M.5K/MG Eindecker.
July 25 » RFC Captain Lanoe Hawker becomes the first British pursuit aviator to earn the Victoria Cross.
August 4 » World War I: The German 12th Army occupies Warsaw during the Gorlice–Tarnów Offensive and the Great Retreat of 1915.
December 20 » World War I: The last Australian troops are evacuated from Gallipoli.
Day of marriage June 27, 1938
The temperature on June 27, 1938 was between 11.6 °C and 20.9 °C and averaged 16.3 °C. There was 3.6 mm of rain during 2.3 hours. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
April 30 » The animated cartoon short Porky's Hare Hunt debuts in movie theaters, introducing Happy Rabbit, an early version of Bugs Bunny.
June 7 » Second Sino-Japanese War: The Chinese Nationalist government creates the 1938 Yellow River flood to halt Japanese forces. Five hundred to nine hundred thousand civilians are killed.
September 21 » The Great Hurricane of 1938 makes landfall on Long Island in New York. The death toll is estimated at 500–700 people.
October 5 » In Nazi Germany, Jews' passports are invalidated.
October 30 » Orson Welles broadcasts his radio play of H. G. Wells's The War of the Worlds, causing anxiety in some of the audience in the United States.
December 17 » Otto Hahn discovers the nuclear fission of the heavy element uranium, the scientific and technological basis of nuclear energy.
Day of death January 19, 2001
The temperature on January 19, 2001 was between -1.3 °C and 0.3 °C and averaged -0.5 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 0.2 hours of sunshine (2%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. Source: KNMI
January 13 » An earthquake hits El Salvador, killing more than 800.
June 1 » Dolphinarium discotheque massacre: A Hamas suicide bomber kills 21 at a disco in Tel Aviv.
June 1 » Nepalese royal massacre: Crown Prince Dipendra of Nepal shoots and kills several members of his family including his father and mother.
July 2 » The AbioCor self-contained artificial heart is first implanted.
October 8 » U.S. President George W. Bush announces the establishment of the Office of Homeland Security.
October 26 » The United States passes the USA PATRIOT Act into law.
Day of burial January 24, 2001
The temperature on January 24, 2001 was between 3.0 °C and 11.9 °C and averaged 8.4 °C. There was 1.4 mm of rain during 1.4 hours. There was 2.3 hours of sunshine (27%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
January 15 » Wikipedia, a free wiki content encyclopedia, goes online.
May 27 » Members of the Islamist separatist group Abu Sayyaf seize twenty hostages from an affluent island resort on Palawan in the Philippines; the hostage crisis would not be resolved until June 2002.
June 11 » Timothy McVeigh is executed for his role in the Oklahoma City bombing.
July 17 » Concorde is brought back into service nearly a year after the July 2000 crash.
September 12 » Ansett Australia, Australia's first commercial interstate airline, collapses due to increased strain on the international airline industry, leaving 10,000 people unemployed.
October 7 » The U.S. invasion of Afghanistan begins with an air assault and covert operations on the ground.
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