The temperature on April 18, 1914 was between 4.8 °C and 16.4 °C and averaged 11.2 °C. There was 11.8 hours of sunshine (84%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east. 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.
April 9 » Mexican Revolution: One of the world's first naval/air skirmishes takes place off the coast of western Mexico.
April 23 » First baseball game at Wrigley Field, then known as Weeghman Park, in Chicago.
August 20 » World War I: Brussels is captured during the German invasion of Belgium.
September 1 » St. Petersburg, Russia, changes its name to Petrograd.
September 16 » World War I: The Siege of Przemyśl (present-day Poland) begins.
December 25 » A series of unofficial truces occur across the Western Front to celebrate Christmas.
Day of death October 1, 1958
The temperature on October 1, 1958 was between 11.1 °C and 16.4 °C and averaged 13.8 °C. There was 1.7 mm of rain during 2.2 hours. The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. Source: KNMI
March 26 » The African Regroupment Party is launched at a meeting in Paris.
May 9 » Alfred Hitchcock's film Vertigo has world premiere in San Francisco.
May 13 » Ben Carlin becomes the first (and only) person to circumnavigate the world by amphibious vehicle, having travelled over 17,000 kilometres (11,000mi) by sea and 62,000 kilometres (39,000mi) by land during a ten-year journey.
August 18 » Brojen Das from Bangladesh swims across the English Channel in a competition, as the first Bengali and the first Asian to do so. He came first among 39 competitors.
October 4 » The current constitution of France is adopted.
December 18 » Project SCORE, the world's first communications satellite, is launched.
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