The temperature on August 2, 1917 was between 12.1 °C and 14.4 °C and averaged 13.7 °C. There was 9.0 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. 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.
January 22 » World War I: President Woodrow Wilson of the still-neutral United States calls for "peace without victory" in Europe.
February 5 » The Congress of the United States passes the Immigration Act of 1917 over President Woodrow Wilson's veto.
June 7 » World War I: Battle of Messines: Allied soldiers detonate a series of mines underneath German trenches at Messines Ridge, killing 10,000 German troops.
October 4 » World War I: The Battle of Broodseinde is fought between the British and German armies in Flanders.
October 31 » World War I: Battle of Beersheba: The "last successful cavalry charge in history".
December 11 » World War I: British General Edmund Allenby enters Jerusalem on foot and declares martial law.
Day of death December 26, 2003
The temperature on December 26, 2003 was between 6.1 °C and 9.0 °C and averaged 7.5 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, July 22, 2002 to Tuesday, May 27, 2003 the cabinet Balkenende I, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, May 27, 2003 to Friday, July 7, 2006 the cabinet Balkenende II, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
March 5 » In Haifa, 17 Israeli civilians are killed in the Haifa bus 37 suicide bombing.
August 10 » The Okinawa Urban Monorail is opened in Naha, Okinawa.
August 19 » A car-bomb attack on United Nations headquarters in Iraq kills the agency's top envoy Sérgio Vieira de Mello and 21 other employees.
September 14 » In a referendum, Estonia approves joining the European Union.
November 15 » The first day of the 2003 Istanbul bombings, in which two car bombs, targeting two synagogues, explode, killing 25 people and wounding about 300.
December 23 » PetroChina Chuandongbei natural gas field explosion, Guoqiao, Kai County, Chongqing, China, killing at least 234.
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