The temperature on May 6, 1917 was between 2.3 °C and 12.6 °C and averaged 7.6 °C. There was 12.2 hours of sunshine (80%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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 26 » World War I: First Battle of Gaza: British troops are halted after 17,000 Turks block their advance.
July 31 » World War I: The Battle of Passchendaele begins near Ypres in West Flanders, Belgium.
November 2 » The Balfour Declaration proclaims British support for the "establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people" with the clear understanding "that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities".
November 5 » Tikhon is elected the Patriarch of Moscow and of the Russian Orthodox Church.
November 26 » The Manchester Guardian publishes the 1916 secret Sykes-Picot Agreement between the United Kingdom and France.
December 15 » World War I: An armistice between Russia and the Central Powers is signed.
Day of death February 6, 1967
The temperature on February 6, 1967 was between 1.3 °C and 6.4 °C and averaged 4.6 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
March 18 » The supertanker Torrey Canyon runs aground off the Cornish coast.
April 29 » After refusing induction into the United States Army the previous day, Muhammad Ali is stripped of his boxing title.
June 9 » Six-Day War: Israel captures the Golan Heights from Syria.
November 9 » Apollo program: NASA launches the unmanned Apollo 4 test spacecraft atop the first Saturn V rocket from Cape Kennedy, Florida.
November 30 » Pro-Soviet communists in the Philippines establish Malayang Pagkakaisa ng Kabataan Pilipino as its new youth wing.
December 3 » At Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa, a transplant team headed by Christiaan Barnard carries out the first heart transplant on a human (53-year-old Louis Washkansky).
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