The temperature on August 20, 1918 was between 11.6 °C and 19.9 °C and averaged 16.6 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. 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.
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.
February 5 » Stephen W. Thompson shoots down a German airplane; this is the first aerial victory by the U.S. military.
August 29 » World War I: Bapaume taken by the New Zealand Division in the Hundred Days Offensive.
August 30 » Fanni Kaplan shoots and seriously injures Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin, which along with the assassination of Bolshevik senior official Moisei Uritsky days earlier, prompts the decree for Red Terror.
September 29 » The Hindenburg Line is broken by an Allied attack.
November 9 » Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany abdicates after the German Revolution, and Germany is proclaimed a Republic.
November 11 » Emperor Charles I of Austria relinquishes power.
Day of marriage June 1, 1950
The temperature on June 1, 1950 was between 6.8 °C and 20.6 °C and averaged 14.4 °C. There was 12.1 hours of sunshine (74%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. Source: KNMI
From August 7, 1948 till March 15, 1951 the Netherlands had a cabinet Drees - Van Schaik with the prime ministers Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) and Mr. J.R.H. van Schaik (KVP).
February 8 » Cold War: The Stasi, the secret police of East Germany, is established.
March 1 » Cold War: Klaus Fuchs is convicted of spying for the Soviet Union by disclosing top secret atomic bomb data.
June 28 » Korean War: North Korean Army conducts the Seoul National University Hospital massacre.
August 12 » Korean War: Bloody Gulch massacre: 75 American POWs are massacred by North Korean Army.
October 11 » CBS's field-sequential color system for television is the first to be licensed for broadcast by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission.
November 1 » Pope Pius XII claims papal infallibility when he formally defines the dogma of the Assumption of Mary.
Day of death July 8, 1991
The temperature on July 8, 1991 was between 17.5 °C and 24.9 °C and averaged 21.0 °C. There was 10.8 mm of rain during 3.0 hours. There was 5.2 hours of sunshine (31%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-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 17 » Gulf War: Operation Desert Storm begins early in the morning as aircraft strike positions across Iraq, it is also the first major combat sortie for the F-117. LCDR Scott Speicher's F/A-18C Hornet from VFA-81 is shot down by a Mig-25 and is the first American casualty of the War. Iraq fires eight Scud missiles into Israel in an unsuccessful bid to provoke Israeli retaliation.
February 9 » Voters in Lithuania vote for independence.
May 26 » Lauda Air Flight 004 breaks apart in mid-air and crashes in the Phu Toei National Park in Thailand, killing all 223 people on board.
July 10 » The South African cricket team is readmitted into the International Cricket Council following the end of Apartheid.
August 27 » Moldova declares independence from the USSR.
November 20 » An Azerbaijani MI-8 helicopter carrying 19 peacekeeping mission team with officials and journalists from Russia, Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan is shot down by Armenian military forces in Khojavend District of Azerbaijan.
Day of burial July 12, 1991
The temperature on July 12, 1991 was between 16.3 °C and 20.9 °C and averaged 18.4 °C. There was 5.4 mm of rain during 1.2 hours. There was 6.7 hours of sunshine (41%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) 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 5 » Somali Civil War: The United States Embassy to Somalia in Mogadishu is evacuated by helicopter airlift days after the outbreak of violence in Mogadishu.
April 10 » Italian ferry MSMoby Prince collides with an oil tanker in dense fog off Livorno, Italy, killing 140.
May 21 » Mengistu Haile Mariam, president of the People's Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, flees Ethiopia, effectively bringing the Ethiopian Civil War to an end.
August 24 » Ukraine declares itself independent from the Soviet Union.
August 29 » Libero Grassi, an Italian businessman from Palermo, is killed by the Sicilian Mafia after taking a solitary stand against their extortion demands.
November 28 » South Ossetia declares independence from Georgia.
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