The temperature on June 23, 1914 was between 9.6 °C and 18.5 °C and averaged 12.8 °C. There was 11.5 mm of rain. There was 2.5 hours of sunshine (15%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. 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 26 » HMHSBritannic, sister to the RMSTitanic, is launched at Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast.
April 9 » Mexican Revolution: One of the world's first naval/air skirmishes takes place off the coast of western Mexico.
September 1 » The last known passenger pigeon, a female named Martha, dies in captivity in the Cincinnati Zoo.
November 5 » World War I: France and the British Empire declare war on the Ottoman Empire.
November 7 » The first issue of The New Republic is published.
December 15 » A gas explosion at Mitsubishi Hōjō coal mine, in Kyushu, Japan, kills 687.
Day of marriage December 31, 1938
The temperature on December 31, 1938 was between 0.1 °C and 4.2 °C and averaged 2.3 °C. There was 2.0 mm of rain during 0.8 hours. There was 2.9 hours of sunshine (37%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
April 30 » The animated cartoon short Porky's Hare Hunt debuts in movie theaters, introducing Happy Rabbit, an early version of Bugs Bunny.
May 26 » In the United States, the House Un-American Activities Committee begins its first session.
June 7 » Second Sino-Japanese War: The Chinese Nationalist government creates the 1938 Yellow River flood to halt Japanese forces. Five hundred to nine hundred thousand civilians are killed.
June 7 » The Douglas DC-4E makes its first test flight.
June 23 » The Civil Aeronautics Act is signed into law, forming the Civil Aeronautics Authority in the United States.
September 30 » Britain, France, Germany and Italy sign the Munich Agreement, whereby Germany annexes the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia.
Day of death December 22, 1988
The temperature on December 22, 1988 was between 8.6 °C and 9.9 °C and averaged 9.4 °C. There was 0.2 hours of sunshine (3%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, November 4, 1986 to Tuesday, November 7, 1989 the cabinet Lubbers II, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
February 12 » Cold War: The 1988 Black Sea bumping incident: The U.S. missile cruiser USSYorktown(CG-48) is intentionally rammed by the Soviet frigate Bezzavetnyy in the Soviet territorial waters, while Yorktown claims innocent passage.
March 6 » Three Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteers are shot dead by the SAS in Gibraltar in Operation Flavius.
April 10 » The Ojhri Camp explosion kills or injures more than 1,000 people in Rawalpindi and Islamabad, Pakistan.
May 8 » A fire at Illinois Bell's Hinsdale Central Office triggers an extended 1AESS network outage once considered to be the "worst telecommunications disaster in US telephone industry history".
May 9 » New Parliament House, Canberra officially opens.
August 17 » President of Pakistan Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq and U.S. Ambassador Arnold Raphel are killed in a plane crash.
Day of burial December 27, 1988
The temperature on December 27, 1988 was between 6.1 °C and 11.0 °C and averaged 9.2 °C. There was 1.9 mm of rain during 1.7 hours. There was 3.7 hours of sunshine (48%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, November 4, 1986 to Tuesday, November 7, 1989 the cabinet Lubbers II, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
March 16 » Halabja chemical attack: The Kurdish town of Halabja in Iraq is attacked with a mix of poison gas and nerve agents on the orders of Saddam Hussein, killing 5,000 people and injuring about 10,000 people.
May 16 » A report by the Surgeon General of the United States C. Everett Koop states that the addictive properties of nicotine are similar to those of heroin and cocaine.
May 24 » Section 28 of the United Kingdom's Local Government Act 1988, a controversial amendment stating that a local authority cannot intentionally promote homosexuality, is enacted.
August 20 » The Troubles: Eight British soldiers are killed and 28 wounded when their bus is hit by an IRA roadside bomb in Ballygawley, County Tyrone.
September 7 » Abdul Ahad Mohmand, the first Afghan in space, returns to Earth after nine days on the Mir space station.
November 15 » The first Fairtrade label, Max Havelaar, is launched in the Netherlands.
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