The temperature on July 29, 1917 was between 8.8 °C and 23.5 °C and averaged 16.1 °C. There was 4.4 mm of rain. There was 6.6 hours of sunshine (42%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-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.
March 4 » Jeannette Rankin of Montana becomes the first female member of the United States House of Representatives.
March 25 » The Georgian Orthodox Church restores its autocephaly abolished by Imperial Russia in 1811.
July 20 » World War I: The Corfu Declaration, which leads to the creation of the post-war Kingdom of Yugoslavia, is signed by the Yugoslav Committee and Kingdom of Serbia.
November 5 » October Revolution: Lenin calls for the October Revolution.
November 20 » World War I: Battle of Cambrai begins: British forces make early progress in an attack on German positions but are later pushed back.
November 24 » In Milwaukee, nine members of the Milwaukee Police Department are killed by a bomb, the most deaths in a single event in U.S. police history until the September 11 attacks in 2001.
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