The temperature on March 15, 1914 was between 6.5 °C and 10.5 °C and averaged 8.1 °C. There was 11.9 mm of rain. There was 3.4 hours of sunshine (29%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong 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.
August 2 » The German occupation of Luxembourg during World War I begins.
August 6 » World War I: First Battle of the Atlantic: Two days after the United Kingdom had declared war on Germany over the German invasion of Belgium, ten German U-boats leave their base in Heligoland to attack Royal Navy warships in the North Sea.
August 17 » World War I: Battle of Stallupönen: The German army of General Hermann von François defeats the Russian force commanded by Paul von Rennenkampf near modern-day Nesterov, Russia.
August 24 » World War I: The Battle of Cer ends as the first Allied victory in the war.
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.
November 2 » World War I: The Russian Empire declares war on the Ottoman Empire and the Dardanelles are subsequently closed.
Day of marriage May 4, 1935
The temperature on May 4, 1935 was between 5.2 °C and 20.1 °C and averaged 13.9 °C. There was 12.3 hours of sunshine (82%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. Source: KNMI
February 12 » USSMacon, one of the two largest helium-filled airships ever created, crashes into the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California and sinks.
February 20 » Caroline Mikkelsen becomes the first woman to set foot in Antarctica.
March 21 » Shah of Iran Reza Shah Pahlavi formally asks the international community to call Persia by its native name, Iran.
April 1 » India's central banking institution, The Reserve Bank of India, is formed.
May 31 » A 7.7 Mw earthquake destroys Quetta in modern-day Pakistan killing 40,000.
September 8 » US Senator from Louisiana Huey Long is fatally shot in the Louisiana State Capitol building.
Day of death January 3, 2001
The temperature on January 3, 2001 was between 4.5 °C and 9.9 °C and averaged 6.7 °C. There was 4.0 mm of rain during 3.9 hours. There was 5.2 hours of sunshine (66%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
January 16 » Congolese President Laurent-Désiré Kabila is assassinated by one of his own bodyguards.
January 20 » President of the Philippines Joseph Estrada is ousted in a nonviolent 4-day revolution, and is succeeded by Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo.
August 10 » The 2001 Angola train attack occurred, causing 252 deaths.
September 18 » First mailing of anthrax letters from Trenton, New Jersey in the 2001 anthrax attacks.
November 14 » A magnitude 7.8 earthquake strikes a remote part of the Tibetan plateau. It had the longest known surface rupture recorded on land (~400km) and is the best documented example of a supershear earthquake.
December 11 » The People's Republic of China joins the World Trade Organization (WTO).
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