The temperature on August 18, 1914 was between 8.8 °C and 20.5 °C and averaged 15.0 °C. There was 6.8 hours of sunshine (47%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) 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.
March 8 » First flights (for the Royal Thai Air Force) at Don Mueang International Airport in Bangkok.
May 30 » The new, and then the largest, Cunard ocean liner RMSAquitania, 45,647 tons, sets sails on her maiden voyage from Liverpool, England, to New York City.
June 12 » Massacre of Phocaea: Turkish irregulars slaughter 50 to 100 Greeks and expel thousands of others in an ethnic cleansing operation in the Ottoman Empire.
August 6 » World War I: First Battle of the Atlantic: Two days after the United Kingdom had declared war on Germany over the German invasion of Belgium, ten German U-boats leave their base in Heligoland to attack Royal Navy warships in the North Sea.
August 23 » World War I: The British Expeditionary Force and the French Fifth Army begin their Great Retreat before the German Army.
August 28 » World War I: German troops take the city of Namur in Belgium.
Day of marriage May 19, 1934
The temperature on May 19, 1934 was between 2.0 °C and 19.8 °C and averaged 13.0 °C. There was 11.2 hours of sunshine (71%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
January 1 » A "Law for the Prevention of Genetically Diseased Offspring" comes into effect in Nazi Germany.
April 21 » The "Surgeon's Photograph", the most famous photo allegedly showing the Loch Ness Monster, is published in the Daily Mail (in 1999, it is revealed to be a hoax).
May 23 » Infamous American bank robbers Bonnie and Clyde are ambushed by police and killed in Bienville Parish, Louisiana.
August 22 » Bill Woodfull of Australia becomes the only cricket captain to twice regain The Ashes.
September 8 » Off the New Jersey coast, a fire aboard the passenger liner SSMorro Castle kills 137 people.
October 9 » An Ustashe assassin kills King Alexander I of Yugoslavia and Louis Barthou, Foreign Minister of France, in Marseille.
Day of death December 23, 1991
The temperature on December 23, 1991 was between 6.3 °C and 12.0 °C and averaged 10.0 °C. There was 2.7 mm of rain during 1.9 hours. The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, November 7, 1989 to Monday, August 22, 1994 the cabinet Lubbers III, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
January 9 » Representatives from the United States and Iraq meet at the Geneva Peace Conference to try to find a peaceful resolution to the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait.
February 1 » A runway collision between USAir Flight 1493 and SkyWest Flight 5569 at Los Angeles International Airport results in the deaths of 34 people, and injuries to 30 others.
April 29 » The 7.0 Mw Racha earthquake affects Georgia with a maximum MSK intensity of IX (Destructive), killing 270 people.
August 21 » Coup attempt against Mikhail Gorbachev collapses.
October 20 » A 6.8 Mw earthquake strikes the Uttarkashi region of India, killing more than 1,000 people.
November 14 » Cambodian Prince Norodom Sihanouk returns to Phnom Penh after thirteen years of exile.
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