The temperature on February 4, 1917 was between -15.1 °C and -6.1 °C and averaged -9.9 °C. There was 6.1 hours of sunshine (66%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. 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.
January 17 » The United States pays Denmark $25 million for the Virgin Islands.
March 1 » The Zimmermann Telegram is reprinted in newspapers across the United States after the U.S. government releases its unencrypted text.
May 13 » Three children report the first apparition of Our Lady of Fátima in Fátima, Portugal.
June 7 » World War I: Battle of Messines: Allied soldiers detonate a series of mines underneath German trenches at Messines Ridge, killing 10,000 German troops.
June 26 » World War I: The American Expeditionary Forces begin to arrive in France. They will first enter combat four months later.
December 7 » World War I: The United States declares war on Austria-Hungary.
Day of marriage August 19, 1935
The temperature on August 19, 1935 was between 7.9 °C and 23.3 °C and averaged 16.8 °C. There was 9.9 hours of sunshine (68%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the ??. Source: KNMI
February 28 » DuPont scientist Wallace Carothers invents nylon.
May 6 » New Deal: Under the authority of the newly-enacted Federal Emergency Relief Administration, President Franklin D. Roosevelt issues Executive Order 7034 to create the Works Progress Administration.
June 18 » Police in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, clash with striking longshoremen, resulting in a total of 60 injuries and 24 arrests.
July 16 » The world's first parking meter is installed in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
November 24 » The Senegalese Socialist Party holds its second congress.
December 17 » First flight of the Douglas DC-3.
Day of death April 26, 2006
The temperature on April 26, 2006 was between 7.4 °C and 17.0 °C and averaged 12.6 °C. There was 1.9 mm of rain during 1.3 hours. There was 4.5 hours of sunshine (31%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, May 27, 2003 to Friday, July 7, 2006 the cabinet Balkenende II, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
In The Netherlands , there was from Friday, July 7, 2006 to Thursday, February 22, 2007 the cabinet Balkenende III, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
January 12 » A stampede during the Stoning of the Devil ritual on the last day at the Hajj in Mina, Saudi Arabia, kills at least 362 Muslim pilgrims.
February 16 » The last Mobile army surgical hospital (MASH) is decommissioned by the United States Army.
February 22 » At least six men stage Britain's biggest robbery, stealing £53m (about $92.5 million or €78 million) from a Securitas depot in Tonbridge, Kent.
July 31 » Fidel Castro hands over power to his brother, Raúl.
August 11 » The oil tanker MT Solar 1 sinks off the coast of Guimaras and Negros Islands in the Philippines, causing the country's worst oil spill.
October 9 » North Korea conducts its first nuclear test.
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