The temperature on May 17, 1919 was between 6.9 °C and 22.8 °C and averaged 15.3 °C. There was 13.6 hours of sunshine (86%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. 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 5 » Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and D. W. Griffith launch United Artists.
May 1 » German troops enter Munich to suppress the Bavarian Soviet Republic.
May 15 » The Winnipeg general strike begins. By 11:00, almost the whole working population of Winnipeg had walked off the job.
June 21 » Admiral Ludwig von Reuter scuttles the German fleet at Scapa Flow, Orkney. The nine sailors killed are the last casualties of World War I.
July 6 » The British dirigible R34 lands in New York, completing the first crossing of the Atlantic Ocean by an airship.
December 3 » After nearly 20 years of planning and construction, including two collapses causing 89 deaths, the Quebec Bridge opens to traffic.
Day of marriage May 21, 1943
The temperature on May 21, 1943 was between 10.3 °C and 25.2 °C and averaged 17.7 °C. There was 11.3 hours of sunshine (71%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest. 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.
April 19 » Albert Hofmann deliberately doses himself with LSD for the first time, three days after having discovered its effects on April 16.
September 8 » World War II: The O.B.S. (German General Headquarters for the Mediterranean zone) is attacked in an air raid on Frascati.
October 3 » World War II: German forces murder 92 civilians in Lyngiades, Greece.
October 8 » World War II: Around 30 civilians are executed by Friedrich Schubert's paramilitary group in Kallikratis, Crete.
November 20 » World War II: Battle of Tarawa (Operation Galvanic) begins: United States Marines land on Tarawa Atoll in the Gilbert Islands and suffer heavy fire from Japanese shore guns and machine guns.
December 30 » Subhas Chandra Bose raises the flag of Indian independence at Port Blair.
Day of death June 17, 1990
The temperature on June 17, 1990 was between 5.7 °C and 22.5 °C and averaged 15.2 °C. There was 9.4 hours of sunshine (56%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, November 7, 1989 to Monday, August 22, 1994 the cabinet Lubbers III, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
March 1 » Steve Jackson Games is raided by the United States Secret Service, prompting the later formation of the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
March 11 » Patricio Aylwin is sworn in as the first democratically elected President of Chile since 1970.
June 10 » British Airways Flight 5390 lands safely at Southampton Airport after a blowout in the cockpit causes the captain to be partially sucked from the cockpit. There are no fatalities.
June 12 » Russia Day: The parliament of the Russian Federation formally declares its sovereignty.
June 19 » The Communist Party of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic is founded in Moscow.
October 13 » Syrian forces attack free areas of Lebanon, removing General Michel Aoun from the presidential palace.
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