The temperature on February 3, 1914 was between -0.5 °C and 8.5 °C and averaged 3.3 °C. There was 4.5 hours of sunshine (49%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-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.
June 23 » Mexican Revolution: Pancho Villa takes Zacatecas from Victoriano Huerta.
July 11 » Babe Ruth makes his debut in Major League Baseball.
August 25 » World War I: The library of the Catholic University of Leuven is deliberately destroyed by the German Army. Hundreds of thousands of irreplaceable volumes and Gothic and Renaissance manuscripts are lost.
August 26 » World War I: The German colony of Togoland surrenders to French and British forces after a 20-day campaign.
September 13 » World War I: The Battle of Aisne begins between Germany and France.
November 28 » World War I: Following a war-induced closure in July, the New York Stock Exchange re-opens for bond trading.
Day of death February 19, 1988
The temperature on February 19, 1988 was between 4.3 °C and 9.2 °C and averaged 6.5 °C. There was 0.7 mm of rain during 2.4 hours. There was 6.1 hours of sunshine (60%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, November 4, 1986 to Tuesday, November 7, 1989 the cabinet Lubbers II, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
March 6 » Three Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteers are shot dead by the SAS in Gibraltar in Operation Flavius.
May 8 » A fire at Illinois Bell's Hinsdale Central Office triggers an extended 1AESS network outage once considered to be the "worst telecommunications disaster in US telephone industry history".
July 23 » General Ne Win, effective ruler of Burma since 1962, resigns after pro-democracy protests.
August 20 » "Black Saturday" of the Yellowstone fire in Yellowstone National Park
September 27 » The National League for Democracy is formed by Aung San Suu Kyi and others to fight dictatorship in Myanmar.
November 8 » U.S. Vice President George H. W. Bush is elected as the 41st president.
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