The temperature on February 6, 1914 was between -1.4 °C and 7.9 °C and averaged 2.7 °C. There was 5.5 hours of sunshine (59%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. 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 1 » The Republic of China joins the Universal Postal Union.
August 1 » The German Empire declares war on the Russian Empire at the opening of World War I. The Swiss Army mobilizes because of World War I.
August 24 » World War I: The Battle of Cer ends as the first Allied victory in the war.
September 8 » World War I: Private Thomas Highgate becomes the first British soldier to be executed for desertion during the war.
September 11 » World War I: Australia invades German New Guinea, defeating a German contingent at the Battle of Bita Paka.
December 8 » World War I: A squadron of Britain's Royal Navy defeats the Imperial German East Asia Squadron in the Battle of the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic.
Day of death January 14, 1968
The temperature on January 14, 1968 was between -4.2 °C and 9.7 °C and averaged 5.6 °C. There was 15.0 mm of rain during 12.2 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
January 22 » Apollo 5 lifts off carrying the first Lunar module into space.
July 20 » The first International Special Olympics Summer Games are held at Soldier Field in Chicago, with about 1,000 athletes with intellectual disabilities.
July 23 » The only successful hijacking of an El Al aircraft takes place when a Boeing 707 carrying ten crew and 38 passengers is taken over by three members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. The aircraft was en route from Rome, to Lod, Israel.
October 16 » Yasunari Kawabata becomes the first Japanese person to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
November 27 » Penny Ann Early became the first woman to play major professional basketball for the Kentucky Colonels in an ABA game against the Los Angeles Stars.
December 24 » Apollo program: The crew of Apollo 8 enters into orbit around the Moon, becoming the first humans to do so. They performed ten lunar orbits and broadcast live TV pictures.
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