The temperature on January 5, 1908 was between -12.0 °C and 0.3 °C and averaged -7.3 °C. There was 6.2 hours of sunshine (78%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from August 17, 1905 to February 11, 1908 the cabinet De Meester, with Mr. Th. de Meester (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
In The Netherlands , there was from February 12, 1908 to August 29, 1913 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. Th. Heemskerk (AR) as prime minister.
January 30 » Indian pacifist and leader Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi is released from prison by Jan C. Smuts after being tried and sentenced to two months in jail earlier in the month.
March 4 » The Collinwood school fire, Collinwood near Cleveland, Ohio, kills 174 people.
April 8 » H. H. Asquith of the Liberal Party takes office as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, succeeding Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman.
September 17 » The Wright Flyer flown by Orville Wright, with Lieutenant Thomas Selfridge as passenger, crashes, killing Selfridge, who becomes the first airplane fatality.
October 1 » Ford Model T automobiles are offered for sale at a price of US$825.
October 13 » Margaret Travers Symons bursts into the UK parliament and became the first woman to speak there.
Day of marriage October 22, 1926
The temperature on October 22, 1926 was between 0.2 °C and 8.1 °C and averaged 3.3 °C. There was 4.9 hours of sunshine (48%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
January 8 » Abdul-Aziz ibn Saud is crowned King of Hejaz.
March 15 » The dictator Theodoros Pangalos is elected President of Greece without opposition.
April 6 » Varney Airlines makes its first commercial flight (Varney is the root company of United Airlines).
May 22 » Chiang Kai-shek replaces the communists in Kuomintang China.
June 23 » The College Board administers the first SAT exam.
November 25 » The deadliest November tornado outbreak in U.S. history kills 76 people and injures more than 400.
Day of death December 31, 1971
The temperature on December 31, 1971 was between 0.9 °C and 2.7 °C and averaged 1.9 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. Source: KNMI
February 5 » Astronauts land on the moon in the Apollo 14 mission.
February 27 » Doctors in the first Dutch abortion clinic (the Mildredhuis in Arnhem) start performing artificially-induced abortions.
May 3 » Erich Honecker becomes First Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany, remaining in power until 1989.
July 12 » The Australian Aboriginal Flag is flown for the first time.
July 30 » Apollo program: Apollo 15 Mission: David Scott and James Irwin on the Apollo Lunar Module Falcon land on the Moon with the first Lunar Rover.
November 18 » Oman declares its independence from United Kingdom.
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