The temperature on November 24, 1915 was between 1.9 °C and 6.2 °C and averaged 3.7 °C. There was 0.8 mm of rain. There was 0.4 hours of sunshine (5%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-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.
March 26 » The Vancouver Millionaires win the 1915 Stanley Cup Finals, the first championship played between the Pacific Coast Hockey Association and the National Hockey Association.
May 7 » World War I: German submarine U-20 sinks RMS Lusitania, killing 1,198 people, including 128 Americans. Public reaction to the sinking turns many former pro-Germans in the United States against the German Empire.
August 17 » Jewish American Leo Frank is lynched in Marietta, Georgia after a 13-year-old girl is murdered.
August 29 » US Navy salvage divers raise F-4, the first U.S. submarine sunk in an accident.
September 12 » French soldiers rescue over 4,000 Armenian Genocide survivors stranded on Musa Dagh.
September 15 » The Empire Picture Theatre (now The New Empire Cinema), the oldest running cinema in mainland Australia, opens in Bowral, New South Wales.
Day of marriage April 23, 1960
The temperature on April 23, 1960 was between 2.3 °C and 11.1 °C and averaged 7.9 °C. There was 8.7 hours of sunshine (61%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. Source: KNMI
January 28 » The National Football League announced expansion teams for Dallas to start in the 1960 NFL season and Minneapolis-St. Paul for 1961 NFL season.
February 19 » China successfully launches the T-7, its first sounding rocket.
May 7 » Cold War: U-2 Crisis of 1960: Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev announces that his nation is holding American U-2 pilot Gary Powers.
May 27 » In Turkey, a military coup removes President Celâl Bayar and the rest of the democratic government from office.
July 1 » Independence of Somalia.
July 28 » The German Volkswagen Act came into force.
Day of death December 2, 1965
The average temperature on December 2, 1965 was 3.2 °C. There was 5.4 mm of rain during 3.8 hours. The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
January 9 » The Mirzapur Cadet College formally opens for academic activities in East Pakistan (now Bangladesh).
February 21 » Malcolm X is assassinated while giving a talk at the Audubon Ballroom in Harlem.
April 11 » The Palm Sunday tornado outbreak of 1965: Fifty-one tornadoes hit in six Midwestern states, killing 256 people.
June 9 » Vietnam War: The Viet Cong commences combat with the Army of the Republic of Vietnam in the Battle of Đồng Xoài, one of the largest battles in the war.
September 30 » In Indonesia, a coup by the 30 September Movement is crushed, leading to a mass anti-communist purge, with over 500,000 people killed.
November 9 » Several U.S. states and parts of Canada are hit by a series of blackouts lasting up to 13 hours in the Northeast blackout of 1965.
Day of burial December 7, 1965
The temperature on December 7, 1965 was between 1.4 °C and 5.1 °C and averaged 3.9 °C. There was 5.4 mm of rain during 3.8 hours. There was 0.4 hours of sunshine (5%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
March 30 » Vietnam War: A car bomb explodes in front of the United States Embassy, Saigon, killing 22 and wounding 183 others.
May 12 » The Soviet spacecraft Luna 5 crashes on the Moon.
August 11 » Race riots (the Watts Riots) begin in the Watts area of Los Angeles, California.
September 9 » The United States Department of Housing and Urban Development is established.
November 16 » Venera program: The Soviet Union launches the Venera 3 space probe toward Venus, which will be the first spacecraft to reach the surface of another planet.
December 21 » International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination is adopted.
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