The temperature on January 1, 1917 was between 8.9 °C and 10.5 °C and averaged 10.0 °C. There was 3.6 mm of rain. 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 9 » World War I: The Battle of Rafa is fought near the Egyptian border with Palestine.
March 8 » International Women's Day protests in St. Petersburg mark the beginning of the February Revolution (February 23rd in the Julian calendar).
March 11 » World War I: Mesopotamian campaign: Baghdad falls to Anglo-Indian forces commanded by General Stanley Maude.
September 26 » World War I: The Battle of Polygon Wood begins.
November 5 » October Revolution: Lenin calls for the October Revolution.
November 5 » Tikhon is elected the Patriarch of Moscow and of the Russian Orthodox Church.
Day of death January 24, 1998
The temperature on January 24, 1998 was between 0.8 °C and 4.8 °C and averaged 2.6 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 0.8 hours. There was 2.7 hours of sunshine (31%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) 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.
In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, August 3, 1998 to Monday, July 22, 2002 the cabinet Kok II, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
January 12 » Nineteen European nations agree to forbid human cloning.
March 31 » Netscape releases Mozilla source code under an open source license.
May 13 » Race riots break out in Jakarta, Indonesia, where shops owned by Indonesians of Chinese descent are looted and women raped.
October 31 » Iraq disarmament crisis begins: Iraq announces it would no longer cooperate with United Nations weapons inspectors.
November 19 » Vincent van Gogh's Portrait of the Artist Without Beard sells at auction for US$71.5million.
November 20 » A court in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan declares accused terrorist Osama bin Laden "a man without a sin" in regard to the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania.
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