The temperature on October 26, 1909 was between -0.2 °C and 9.5 °C and averaged 5.2 °C. There was 0.9 mm of rain. There was 4.9 hours of sunshine (49%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east. Source: KNMI
January 25 » Richard Strauss's opera Elektra receives its debut performance at the Dresden State Opera.
February 12 » New Zealand's worst maritime disaster of the 20th century happens when the SSPenguin, an inter-island ferry, sinks and explodes at the entrance to Wellington Harbour.
June 2 » Alfred Deakin becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the third time.
August 30 » Burgess Shale fossils are discovered by Charles Doolittle Walcott.
September 23 » The novel Le Fantôme de l'Opéra (The Phantom of the Opera), by Gaston Leroux, is published as a serialization in Le Gaulois.
September 30 » The Cunard Line's RMS Mauretania makes a record-breaking westbound crossing of the Atlantic, that will not be bettered for 20 years.
Day of marriage January 19, 1940
The temperature on January 19, 1940 was between -15.2 °C and -7.3 °C and averaged -11.1 °C. There was 5.3 hours of sunshine (63%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from August 10, 1939 to September 3, 1940 the cabinet De Geer II, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
In The Netherlands , there was from September 3, 1940 to July 27, 1941 the cabinet Gerbrandy I, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
July 2 » Indian independence leader Subhas Chandra Bose is arrested and detained in Calcutta.
July 10 » World War II: The Vichy government is established in France.
August 30 » The Second Vienna Award reassigns the territory of Northern Transylvania from Romania to Hungary.
November 11 » World War II: The German auxiliary cruiser Atlantis captures top secret British mail from the Automedon, and sends it to Japan.
November 13 » Walt Disney's animated musical film Fantasia is first released, on the first night of a roadshow at New York's Broadway Theatre.
November 25 » World War II: First flights of both the de Havilland Mosquito and Martin B-26 Marauder.
Day of death February 8, 1995
The temperature on February 8, 1995 was between 1.4 °C and 8.8 °C and averaged 4.3 °C. There was 9.6 mm of rain during 7.3 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, August 22, 1994 to Monday, August 3, 1998 the cabinet a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabinet-Kok_I" class="extern">Kok I, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
March 31 » TAROM Flight 371, an Airbus A310-300, crashes near Balotesti, Romania, killing all 60 people on board.
April 7 » First Chechen War: Russian paramilitary troops begin a massacre of civilians in Samashki, Chechnya.
July 5 » Armenia adopts its constitution, four years after its independence from the Soviet Union.
October 30 » Quebec citizens narrowly vote (50.58% to 49.42%) in favour of remaining a province of Canada in their second referendum on national sovereignty.
November 13 » Mozambique becomes the first state to join the Commonwealth of Nations without having been part of the former British Empire.
December 20 » American Airlines Flight 965, a Boeing 757, crashes into a mountain 50km north of Cali, Colombia killing 159.
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