The temperature on April 9, 1915 was between 4.0 °C and 7.6 °C and averaged 5.9 °C. There was 3.0 mm of rain. There was 1.2 hours of sunshine (9%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. 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 12 » The United States House of Representatives rejects a proposal to require states to give women the right to vote.
February 8 » D. W. Griffith's controversial film The Birth of a Nation premieres in Los Angeles.
March 26 » The Vancouver Millionaires win the 1915 Stanley Cup Finals, the first championship played between the Pacific Coast Hockey Association and the National Hockey Association.
May 17 » The last British Liberal Party government (led by H. H. Asquith) falls.
May 23 » World War I: Italy joins the Allies, fulfilling its part of the Treaty of London.
June 9 » William Jennings Bryan resigns as Woodrow Wilson's Secretary of State over a disagreement regarding the United States' handling of the sinking of the RMSLusitania.
Day of marriage April 24, 1942
The temperature on April 24, 1942 was between 3.1 °C and 15.7 °C and averaged 9.3 °C. There was 9.1 hours of sunshine (63%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from July 27, 1941 to February 23, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy II, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
April 9 » World War II: The Battle of Bataan ends. An Indian Ocean raid by Japan's 1st Air Fleet sinks the British aircraft carrier HMSHermes and the Australian destroyer HMASVampire.
May 7 » World War II: During the Battle of the Coral Sea, United States Navy aircraft carrier aircraft attack and sink the Imperial Japanese Navy light aircraft carrier Shōhō; the battle marks the first time in naval history that two enemy fleets fight without visual contact between warring ships.
May 9 » Holocaust: The SS executes 588 Jewish residents of the Podolian town of Zinkiv (Khmelnytska oblast, Ukraine). The Zoludek Ghetto (in Belarus) is destroyed and all its inhabitants executed or deported.
June 10 » World War II: The Lidice massacre is perpetrated as a reprisal for the assassination of Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich.
June 21 » World War II: A Japanese submarine surfaces near the Columbia River in Oregon, firing 17 shells at Fort Stevens in one of only a handful of attacks by Japan against the United States mainland.
September 5 » World War II: Japanese high command orders withdrawal at Milne Bay, the first major Japanese defeat in land warfare during the Pacific War.
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