The temperature on March 22, 1914 was between 0.3 °C and 10.2 °C and averaged 5.0 °C. There was 0.9 mm of rain. There was 8.3 hours of sunshine (68%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. 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.
May 25 » The House of Commons of the United Kingdom passes the Home Rule Bill for devolution in Ireland.
August 6 » World War I: Serbia declares war on Germany; Austria declares war on Russia.
August 28 » World War I: German troops take the city of Namur in Belgium.
September 22 » A German submarine sinks three British cruisers over a seventy-minute period, killing almost 1500 sailors.
October 27 » First World War: The new British battleship HMS Audacious is sunk by a minefield laid by the armed German merchant-cruiser Berlin.
December 16 » World War I: Admiral Franz von Hipper commands a raid on Scarborough, Hartlepool and Whitby.
Day of marriage April 25, 1936
The temperature on April 25, 1936 was between 1.4 °C and 13.3 °C and averaged 9.2 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 0.3 hours. There was 0.3 hours of sunshine (2%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
March 5 » First flight of K5054, the first prototype Supermarine Spitfire advanced monoplane fighter aircraft in the United Kingdom.
April 6 » Tupelo–Gainesville tornado outbreak: Another tornado from the same storm system as the Tupelo tornado hits Gainesville, Georgia, killing 203.
June 15 » First flight of the Vickers Wellington bomber.
July 23 » In Catalonia, Spain, the Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia is founded through the merger of Socialist and Communist parties.
October 5 » The Jarrow March sets off for London.
December 30 » The United Auto Workers union stages its first sitdown strike.
Day of death May 21, 1999
The temperature on May 21, 1999 was between 10.8 °C and 21.2 °C and averaged 15.7 °C. There was 1.0 mm of rain during 0.7 hours. There was 9.0 hours of sunshine (56%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
February 12 » United States President Bill Clinton is acquitted by the United States Senate in his impeachment trial.
May 1 » The body of British climber George Mallory is found on Mount Everest, 75 years after his disappearance in 1924.
October 31 » Yachtsman Jesse Martin returns to Melbourne after 11 months of circumnavigating the world, solo, non-stop and unassisted.
November 26 » The 7.5 Mw Ambrym earthquake shakes Vanuatu and a destructive tsunami follows. Ten people were killed and forty were injured.
December 3 » NASA loses radio contact with the Mars Polar Lander moments before the spacecraft enters the Martian atmosphere.
December 24 » Indian Airlines Flight 814 is hijacked in Indian airspace between Kathmandu, Nepal, and Delhi, India. The aircraft landed at Kandahar in Afghanistan. The incident ended on December 31 with the release of 190 survivors (one passenger is killed).
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