The temperature on August 20, 1917 was between 8.7 °C and 20.5 °C and averaged 14.4 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain. There was 5.9 hours of sunshine (41%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-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.
March 4 » Jeannette Rankin of Montana becomes the first female member of the United States House of Representatives.
March 15 » Tsar Nicholas II of Russia abdicates the Russian throne ending the 304-year Romanov dynasty.
June 11 » King Alexander assumes the throne of Greece after his father, Constantine I, abdicates under pressure from allied armies occupying Athens.
June 26 » World War I: The American Expeditionary Forces begin to arrive in France. They will first enter combat four months later.
December 7 » World War I: The United States declares war on Austria-Hungary.
December 12 » Father Edward J. Flanagan founds Boys Town as a farm village for wayward boys.
Day of death March 13, 1932
The temperature on March 13, 1932 was between -1.7 °C and 8.6 °C and averaged 2.6 °C. There was 4.6 hours of sunshine (39%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from August 10, 1929 to May 26, 1933 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck III, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
January 25 » Second Sino-Japanese War: The Chinese National Revolutionary Army begins the defense of Harbin.
July 28 » U.S. President Herbert Hoover orders the United States Army to forcibly evict the "Bonus Army" of World War I veterans gathered in Washington, D.C.
July 29 » Great Depression: In Washington, D.C., troops disperse the last of the "Bonus Army" of World War I veterans.
September 10 » The New York City Subway's third competing subway system, the municipally-owned IND, is opened.
September 24 » Gandhi and Dr. Ambedkar agree to the Poona Pact, which reserved seats in the Indian provincial legislatures for the "Depressed Classes" (Untouchables).
October 15 » Tata Airlines (later to become Air India) makes its first flight.
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