The temperature on February 23, 1917 was between -2.0 °C and 1.6 °C and averaged 0.6 °C. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. 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 9 » World War I: The Battle of Rafa is fought near the Egyptian border with Palestine.
March 1 » The Zimmermann Telegram is reprinted in newspapers across the United States after the U.S. government releases its unencrypted text.
April 2 » World War I: United States President Woodrow Wilson asks the U.S. Congress for a declaration of war on Germany.
July 27 » World War I: The Allies reach the Yser Canal at the Battle of Passchendaele.
September 14 » The Russian Empire is formally replaced by the Russian Republic.
November 25 » World War I: German forces defeat Portuguese army of about 1,200 at Negomano on the border of modern-day Mozambique and Tanzania.
Day of death September 4, 1996
The temperature on September 4, 1996 was between 10.5 °C and 18.2 °C and averaged 14.8 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 2.2 hours of sunshine (16%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, August 22, 1994 to Monday, August 3, 1998 the cabinet a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabinet-Kok_I" class="extern">Kok I, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
February 6 » Willamette Valley Flood: Floods in the Willamette Valley of Oregon, United States, causes over US$500 million in property damage throughout the Pacific Northwest.
April 4 » Comet Hyakutake is imaged by the USA Asteroid Orbiter Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous.
July 3 » British Prime Minister John Major announced the Stone of Scone would be returned to Scotland.
July 17 » TWA Flight 800: Off the coast of Long Island, New York, a Paris-bound TWA Boeing 747 explodes, killing all 230 on board.
August 6 » NASA announces that the ALH 84001 meteorite, thought to originate from Mars, contains evidence of primitive life-forms.
August 29 » Vnukovo Airlines Flight 2801, a Tupolev Tu-154, crashes into a mountain on the Arctic island of Spitsbergen, killing all 141 aboard.
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