The temperature on May 20, 1917 was between 10.5 °C and 26.8 °C and averaged 19.7 °C. There was 12.2 hours of sunshine (77%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. 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 15 » Tsar Nicholas II of Russia abdicates the Russian throne ending the 304-year Romanov dynasty.
May 21 » The Great Atlanta fire of 1917 causes $5.5million in damages, destroying some 300 acres including 2,000 homes, businesses and churches, displacing about 10,000 people but leading to only one fatality (due to heart attack).
June 5 » World War I: Conscription begins in the United States as "Army registration day".
August 6 » World War I: Battle of Mărășești between the Romanian and German armies begins.
December 7 » World War I: The United States declares war on Austria-Hungary.
December 12 » Father Edward J. Flanagan founds Boys Town as a farm village for wayward boys.
Day of death May 30, 2007
The temperature on May 30, 2007 was between 7.1 °C and 20.4 °C and averaged 14.8 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 10.3 hours of sunshine (63%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Friday, July 7, 2006 to Thursday, February 22, 2007 the cabinet Balkenende III, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, February 22, 2007 to Thursday, October 14, 2010 the cabinet Balkenende IV, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
April 11 » Algiers bombings: Two bombings in Algiers kill 33 people and wound a further 222 others.
May 3 » The 3-year-old British girl Madeleine McCann disappears in Praia da Luz, Portugal, starting "the most heavily reported missing-person case in modern history".
May 4 » Greensburg, Kansas is almost completely destroyed by a 1.7-mile wide EF5 tornado. It was the first-ever tornado to be rated as such with the new Enhanced Fujita scale.
August 20 » China Airlines Flight 120 caught fire and exploded after landing at Naha Airport in Okinawa, Japan.
September 18 » Buddhist monks join anti-government protesters in Myanmar, starting what some call the Saffron Revolution.
September 20 » Between 15,000 and 20,000 protesters marched on Jena, Louisiana, in support of six black youths who had been convicted of assaulting a white classmate.
Day of cremation June 4, 2007
The temperature on June 4, 2007 was between 12.6 °C and 22.9 °C and averaged 18.6 °C. There was 11.5 hours of sunshine (70%). The partly 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 Friday, July 7, 2006 to Thursday, February 22, 2007 the cabinet Balkenende III, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, February 22, 2007 to Thursday, October 14, 2010 the cabinet Balkenende IV, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
January 4 » The 110th United States Congress convenes, electing Nancy Pelosi as the first female Speaker of the House in U.S. history.
January 10 » A general strike begins in Guinea in an attempt to get President Lansana Conté to resign.
April 16 » Virginia Tech shooting: Seung-Hui Cho guns down 32 people and injures 17 before committing suicide.
April 20 » Johnson Space Center shooting: William Phillips with a handgun barricades himself in NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas before killing a male hostage and himself.
September 24 » India won first ever T20 international Cricket World Cup.
October 22 » A raid on Anuradhapura Air Force Base is carried out by 21 Tamil Tiger commandos. All except one die in this attack. Eight Sri Lanka Air Force planes are destroyed and 10 damaged.
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