The temperature on December 3, 1917 was between -1.1 °C and 2.3 °C and averaged 0.5 °C. There was 6.6 mm of rain. There was 2.1 hours of sunshine (26%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the northwest. 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.
February 23 » First demonstrations in Saint Petersburg, Russia. The beginning of the February Revolution (March 8 in the Gregorian calendar).
March 26 » World War I: First Battle of Gaza: British troops are halted after 17,000 Turks block their advance.
May 13 » Three children report the first apparition of Our Lady of Fátima in Fátima, Portugal.
July 6 » World War I: Arabian troops led by T. E. Lawrence ("Lawrence of Arabia") and Auda ibu Tayi capture Aqaba from the Ottoman Empire during the Arab Revolt.
July 31 » World War I: The Battle of Passchendaele begins near Ypres in West Flanders, Belgium.
November 5 » Tikhon is elected the Patriarch of Moscow and of the Russian Orthodox Church.
Day of death June 2, 1996
The temperature on June 2, 1996 was between 5.6 °C and 19.9 °C and averaged 13.6 °C. There was 2.1 mm of rain during 1.5 hours. There was 8.4 hours of sunshine (51%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. 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.
January 25 » Billy Bailey becomes the last person to be hanged in the U.S.A.
February 1 » The Communications Decency Act is passed by the U.S. Congress.
February 17 » In Philadelphia, world champion Garry Kasparov beats the Deep Blue supercomputer in a chess match.
June 4 » The first flight of Ariane 5 explodes after roughly 37 seconds. It was a Cluster mission.
June 15 » The Troubles: The Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) detonates a powerful truck bomb in the middle of Manchester, England, devastating the city centre and injuring 200 people.
December 30 » Proposed budget cuts by Benjamin Netanyahu spark protests from 250,000 workers who shut down services across Israel.
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