The temperature on June 1, 1913 was between 5.7 °C and 15.8 °C and averaged 11.1 °C. There was 7.3 mm of rain. There was 3.1 hours of sunshine (19%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. 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.
February 13 » The 13th Dalai Lama proclaims Tibetan independence following a period of domination by Manchu Qing dynasty and initiated a period of almost four decades of independence.
March 21 » Over 360 are killed and 20,000 homes destroyed in the Great Dayton Flood in Dayton, Ohio.
July 3 » Confederate veterans at the Great Reunion of 1913 reenact Pickett's Charge; upon reaching the high-water mark of the Confederacy they are met by the outstretched hands of friendship from Union survivors.
July 4 » President Woodrow Wilson addresses American Civil War veterans at the Great Reunion of 1913.
October 31 » The Indianapolis Streetcar Strike and subsequent riot begins.
December 17 » A spur of the Shaker Heights streetcar line opens, the first line of the eventual Cleveland RTA Rapid Transit system.
Day of marriage March 18, 1937
The temperature on March 18, 1937 was between 5.1 °C and 12.5 °C and averaged 8.3 °C. There was 2.8 hours of sunshine (23%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
June 3 » The Duke of Windsor marries Wallis Simpson.
June 30 » The world's first emergency telephone number, 999, is introduced in London.
July 7 » The Peel Commission Report recommends the partition of Palestine, which was the first formal recommendation for partition in the history of Palestine.
August 1 » Josip Broz Tito reads the resolution "Manifesto of constitutional congress of KPH" to the constitutive congress of KPH (Croatian Communist Party) in woods near Samobor.
September 21 » J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit is published.
December 22 » The Lincoln Tunnel opens to traffic in New York City.
Day of death August 31, 1970
The temperature on August 31, 1970 was between 9.7 °C and 24.0 °C and averaged 16.8 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 0.2 hours. There was 6.3 hours of sunshine (46%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
January 15 » Muammar Gaddafi is proclaimed premier of Libya.
March 6 » An explosion at the Weather Underground safe house in Greenwich Village kills three.
May 1 » Vietnam War: Protests erupt following the announcement by Richard Nixon that the U.S. and South Vietnamese forces would attack Vietnamese communists in a Cambodian Campaign.
May 15 » Philip Lafayette Gibbs and James Earl Green are killed at Jackson State University by police during student protests.
August 23 » Organized by Mexican American labor union leader César Chávez, the Salad Bowl strike, the largest farm worker strike in U.S. history, begins.
October 5 » The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is founded.
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