The temperature on September 5, 1917 was between 9.0 °C and 21.8 °C and averaged 15.9 °C. There was 11.4 hours of sunshine (85%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-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.
May 21 » The Great Atlanta fire of 1917 causes $5.5million in damages, destroying some 300 acres including 2,000 homes, businesses and churches, displacing about 10,000 people but leading to only one fatality (due to heart attack).
July 12 » The Bisbee Deportation occurs as vigilantes kidnap and deport nearly 1,300 striking miners and others from Bisbee, Arizona.
August 28 » Ten Suffragettes are arrested while picketing the White House.
October 13 » The "Miracle of the Sun" is witnessed by an estimated 70,000 people in the Cova da Iria in Portugal.
October 31 » World War I: Battle of Beersheba: The "last successful cavalry charge in history".
November 5 » Tikhon is elected the Patriarch of Moscow and of the Russian Orthodox Church.
Day of death March 12, 1919
The temperature on March 12, 1919 was between 7.1 °C and 14.6 °C and averaged 10.2 °C. There was 0.7 mm of rain. There was 1.7 hours of sunshine (15%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from September 9, 1918 to September 18, 1922 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck I, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
February 6 » The five-day Seattle General Strike begins, as more than 65,000 workers in the city of Seattle, Washington, walk off the job.
March 23 » In Milan, Italy, Benito Mussolini founds his Fascist political movement.
May 8 » Edward George Honey proposes the idea of a moment of silence to commemorate the Armistice of 11 November 1918 which ended World War I.
June 14 » John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown depart from St. John's, Newfoundland on the first nonstop transatlantic flight.
October 16 » Adolf Hitler delivers his first public address at a meeting of the German Workers' Party.
November 7 » The first Palmer Raid is conducted on the second anniversary of the Russian Revolution. Over 10,000 suspected communists and anarchists are arrested in 23 U.S. cities.
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