The temperature on May 17, 1919 was between 6.6 °C and 21.9 °C and averaged 14.9 °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.
January 31 » The Battle of George Square takes place in Glasgow, Scotland, during a campaign for shorter working hours.
March 23 » In Milan, Italy, Benito Mussolini founds his Fascist political movement.
April 16 » Mohandas Gandhi organizes a day of "prayer and fasting" in response to the killing of Indian protesters in the Jallianwala Bagh massacre by the British colonial troops three days earlier.
May 1 » German troops enter Munich to suppress the Bavarian Soviet Republic.
July 27 » The Chicago Race Riot erupts after a racial incident occurred on a South Side beach, leading to 38 fatalities and 537 injuries over a five-day period.
October 16 » Adolf Hitler delivers his first public address at a meeting of the German Workers' Party.
Day of marriage May 21, 1942
The temperature on May 21, 1942 was between 8.0 °C and 15.2 °C and averaged 12.5 °C. There was 1.4 mm of rain during 3.3 hours. There was 1.5 hours of sunshine (9%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. 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 16 » Crash of TWA Flight 3, killing all 22 aboard, including film star Carole Lombard.
February 11 » World War II: Second day of the Battle of Bukit Timah is fought in Singapore.
May 27 » World War II: In Operation Anthropoid, Reinhard Heydrich is fatally wounded in Prague; he dies of his injuries eight days later.
June 7 » World War II: Aleutian Islands Campaign: Imperial Japanese soldiers begin occupying the American islands of Attu and Kiska, in the Aleutian Islands off Alaska.
September 3 » World War II: In response to news of its coming liquidation, Dov Lopatyn leads an uprising in the Ghetto of Lakhva (present-day Belarus).
October 28 » The Alaska Highway first connects Alaska to the North American railway network at Dawson Creek in Canada.
Day of death August 7, 1985
The temperature on August 7, 1985 was between 10.2 °C and 20.0 °C and averaged 15.0 °C. There was 0.8 mm of rain during 1.8 hours. There was 7.1 hours of sunshine (47%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, November 4, 1982 to Monday, July 14, 1986 the cabinet Lubbers I, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
January 7 » Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency launches Sakigake, Japan's first interplanetary spacecraft and the first deep space probe to be launched by any country other than the United States or the Soviet Union.
February 5 » Ugo Vetere, then the mayor of Rome, and Chedli Klibi, then the mayor of Carthage meet in Tunis to sign a treaty of friendship officially ending the Third Punic War which lasted 2,131 years.
February 19 » William J. Schroeder becomes the first recipient of an artificial heart to leave the hospital.
August 23 » Hans Tiedge, top counter-spy of West Germany, defects to East Germany.
September 1 » A joint American–French expedition locates the wreckage of the RMSTitanic.
September 19 » A strong earthquake kills thousands and destroys about 400 buildings in Mexico City.
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