The temperature on August 25, 1916 was between 14.7 °C and 23.2 °C and averaged 18.2 °C. There was 3.5 mm of rain. There was 1.2 hours of sunshine (9%). The average windspeed was 3 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 29 » World War I: Paris is first bombed by German zeppelins.
May 10 » Sailing in the lifeboat James Caird, Ernest Shackleton arrives at South Georgia after a journey of 800 nautical miles from Elephant Island.
June 1 » Louis Brandeis becomes the first Jew appointed to the United States Supreme Court.
September 3 » World War I: Leefe Robinson destroys the German airship Schütte-Lanz SL 11 over Cuffley, north of London; the first German airship to be shot down on British soil.
November 7 » Boston Elevated Railway Company's streetcar No. 393 smashes through the warning gates of the open Summer Street drawbridge in Boston, Massachusetts, plunging into the frigid waters of Fort Point Channel, killing 46 people.
November 18 » World War I: First Battle of the Somme: In France, British Expeditionary Force commander Douglas Haig calls off the battle which started on July 1, 1916.
Day of marriage September 30, 1943
The temperature on September 30, 1943 was between 2.0 °C and 14.9 °C and averaged 10.5 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain during 0.8 hours. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-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.
January 17 » World War II: Greek submarine Papanikolis captures the 200-ton sailing vessel Agios Stefanos and mans her with part of her crew.
February 19 » World War II: Battle of Kasserine Pass in Tunisia begins.
June 25 » The left-wing German Jewish exile Arthur Goldstein is murdered in Auschwitz.
October 3 » World War II: German forces murder 92 civilians in Lyngiades, Greece.
October 5 » Ninety-eight American POWs are executed by Japanese forces on Wake Island.
December 4 » World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt closes down the Works Progress Administration, because of the high levels of wartime employment in the United States.
Day of death June 2, 1991
The temperature on June 2, 1991 was between 1.1 °C and 16.4 °C and averaged 10.0 °C. There was 8.7 hours of sunshine (53%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest. 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.
April 9 » Georgia declares independence from the Soviet Union.
May 21 » Former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi is assassinated by a female suicide bomber near Madras.
June 17 » Apartheid: The South African Parliament repeals the Population Registration Act which required racial classification of all South Africans at birth.
June 26 » Yugoslav Wars: The Yugoslav People's Army begins the Ten-Day War in Slovenia.
October 14 » Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
November 18 » Shiite Muslim kidnappers in Lebanon release Anglican Church envoys Terry Waite and Thomas Sutherland.
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