The temperature on September 13, 1919 was between 12.9 °C and 31.2 °C and averaged 20.7 °C. There was 8.4 hours of sunshine (65%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from September 9, 1918 to September 18, 1922 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck I, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
April 16 » Mohandas Gandhi organizes a day of "prayer and fasting" in response to the killing of Indian protesters in the Jallianwala Bagh massacre by the British colonial troops three days earlier.
August 8 » The Anglo-Afghan Treaty of 1919 is signed. It establishes peaceful relations between Afghanistan and the UK, and confirms the Durand line as the mutual border. In return, the UK is no longer obligated to subsidize the Afghan government.
August 11 » Germany's Weimar Constitution is signed into law.
October 7 » KLM, the flag carrier of the Netherlands, is founded. It is the oldest airline still operating under its original name.
October 16 » Adolf Hitler delivers his first public address at a meeting of the German Workers' Party.
December 17 » Uruguay becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
Day of marriage May 20, 1947
The temperature on May 20, 1947 was between 5.5 °C and 18.1 °C and averaged 12.8 °C. There was 7.0 hours of sunshine (44%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. Source: KNMI
February 12 » Christian Dior unveils a "New Look", helping Paris regain its position as the capital of the fashion world.
March 8 » Thirteen thousand troops of the Republic of China Army arrive in Taiwan after the February 28 Incident and launch crackdowns which kill thousands of people, including many elites. This turns into a major root of the Taiwan independence movement.
April 16 » Bernard Baruch first applies the term "Cold War" to describe the relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union.
May 22 » Cold War: The Truman Doctrine goes into effect, aiding Turkey and Greece.
September 30 » The 1947 World Series is the first to be televised, to include an African-American player, to exceed $2 million in receipts, to see a pinch-hit home run, and to have six umpires on the field.
October 14 » Chuck Yeager becomes the first person to exceed the speed of sound.
Day of death January 1, 2000
The temperature on January 1, 2000 was between 3.5 °C and 8.1 °C and averaged 6.1 °C. There was 1.0 mm of rain during 2.0 hours. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
January 3 » Final daily edition of the Peanuts comic strip.
March 17 » Five hundred and thirty members of the Ugandan cult Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God die in a fire, considered to be a mass murder or suicide orchestrated by leaders of the cult. Elsewhere another 248 members are later found dead.
July 2 » Vicente Fox Quesada is elected the first President of México from an opposition party, the Partido Acción Nacional, after more than 70 years of continuous rule by the Partido Revolucionario Institucional.
August 12 » The Russian Navy submarine Kursk explodes and sinks in the Barents Sea during a military exercise, killing her entire 118-man crew.
October 17 » The Hatfield rail crash leads to the collapse of Railtrack.
December 31 » The last day of the 20th Century and 2nd Millennium.
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