The temperature on April 28, 1917 was between 5.6 °C and 10.3 °C and averaged 8.0 °C. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). The average windspeed was 3 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.
February 24 » World War I: The U.S. ambassador Walter Hines Page to the United Kingdom is given the Zimmermann Telegram, in which Germany pledges to ensure the return of New Mexico, Texas, and Arizona to Mexico if Mexico declares war on the United States.
May 18 » World War I: The Selective Service Act of 1917 is passed, giving the President of the United States the power of conscription.
October 24 » First World War: Italy suffers a disastrous defeat on the Austro-Italian front.
October 26 » First World War: Brazil declares war on the Central Powers.
December 12 » Father Edward J. Flanagan founds Boys Town as a farm village for wayward boys.
Day of death June 7, 1917
The temperature on June 7, 1917 was between 12.6 °C and 29.0 °C and averaged 19.4 °C. There was 7.2 mm of rain. There was 5.4 hours of sunshine (33%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east. 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 11 » The Kingsland munitions factory explosion occurs as a result of sabotage.
March 16 » World War I: A German auxiliary cruiser is sunk in the Action of 16 March 1917.
June 7 » World War I: Battle of Messines: Allied soldiers detonate a series of mines underneath German trenches at Messines Ridge, killing 10,000 German troops.
July 17 » King George V issues a Proclamation stating that the male line descendants of the British Royal Family will bear the surname Windsor.
November 7 » World War I: Third Battle of Gaza ends: British forces capture Gaza from the Ottoman Empire.
December 18 » The resolution containing the language of the Eighteenth Amendment to enact Prohibition is passed by the United States Congress.
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