The temperature on March 24, 1912 was between 5.1 °C and 10.7 °C and averaged 7.3 °C. There was 3.0 mm of rain. There was 0.9 hours of sunshine (7%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
May 4 » Italy occupies the Greek island of Rhodes.
June 8 » Carl Laemmle incorporates Universal Pictures.
August 14 » U.S. Marines invade Nicaragua to support the U.S.-backed government installed there after José Santos Zelaya had resigned three years earlier.
September 28 » The Ulster Covenant is signed by some 500,000 Ulster Protestant Unionists in opposition to the Third Irish Home Rule Bill.
October 26 » First Balkan War: The Ottomans lose the cities of Thessaloniki and Skopje.
December 3 » Bulgaria, Greece, Montenegro, and Serbia (the Balkan League) sign an armistice with the Ottoman Empire, temporarily halting the First Balkan War. (The armistice will expire on February 3, 1913, and hostilities will resume.)
Day of marriage February 23, 1944
The temperature on February 23, 1944 was between -4.7 °C and 3.9 °C and averaged -0.9 °C. There was 9.2 hours of sunshine (88%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from July 27, 1941 to February 23, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy II, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
February 24 » Merrill's Marauders: The Marauders begin their 1,000-mile journey through Japanese-occupied Burma.
April 24 » World War II: The SBS launches a raid against the garrison of Santorini in Greece.
June 25 » The final page of the comic Krazy Kat is published, exactly two months after its author George Herriman died.
September 15 » Battle of Peleliu begins as the United States Marine Corps' 1st Marine Division and the United States Army's 81st Infantry Division hit White and Orange beaches under heavy fire from Japanese infantry and artillery.
September 18 » World War II:Battle of Arracourt begins
October 29 » The Dutch city of Breda is liberated by 1st Polish Armoured Division.
Day of death August 5, 2004
The temperature on August 5, 2004 was between 18.2 °C and 29.6 °C and averaged 23.6 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 7.1 hours of sunshine (46%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, May 27, 2003 to Friday, July 7, 2006 the cabinet Balkenende II, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
February 27 » A bombing of a Superferry by Abu Sayyaf in the Philippines' worst terrorist attack kills 116.
March 29 » Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia, and Slovenia join NATO as full members.
April 3 » Islamic terrorists involved in the 2004 Madrid train bombings are trapped by the police in their apartment and kill themselves.
June 11 » Cassini–Huygens makes its closest flyby of the Saturn moon Phoebe.
June 28 » Iraq War: Sovereign power is handed to the interim government of Iraq by the Coalition Provisional Authority, ending the U.S.-led rule of that nation.
December 27 » Radiation from an explosion on the magnetar SGR 1806-20 reaches Earth. It is the brightest extrasolar event known to have been witnessed on the planet.
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