The temperature on September 1, 1918 was between 9.1 °C and 15.8 °C and averaged 12.2 °C. There was 1.8 mm of rain. There was 9.0 hours of sunshine (66%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) 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.
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 25 » The Ukrainian People's Republic declares independence from Soviet Russia.
January 29 » Ukrainian–Soviet War: The Bolshevik Red Army, on its way to besiege Kiev, is met by a small group of military students at the Battle of Kruty.
May 2 » General Motors acquires the Chevrolet Motor Company of Delaware.
August 11 » World War I: The Battle of Amiens ends.
October 8 » World War I: Corporal Alvin C. York kills 28 German soldiers and captures 132 for which he was awarded the Medal of Honor.
November 26 » The Montenegran Podgorica Assembly votes for a "union of the people", declaring assimilation into the Kingdom of Serbia.
Day of marriage March 28, 1936
The temperature on March 28, 1936 was between 5.4 °C and 17.6 °C and averaged 11.5 °C. There was 7.3 hours of sunshine (58%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. Source: KNMI
March 16 » Warmer-than-normal temperatures rapidly melt snow and ice on the upper Allegheny and Monongahela rivers, leading to a major flood in Pittsburgh.
May 21 » Sada Abe is arrested after wandering the streets of Tokyo for days with her dead lover's severed genitals in her handbag. Her story soon becomes one of Japan's most notorious scandals.
May 28 » Alan Turing submits On Computable Numbers for publication.
August 31 » Radio Prague, now the official international broadcasting station of the Czech Republic, goes on the air.
October 27 » Mrs Wallis Simpson obtains her divorce, which would eventually allow her to marry King Edward VIII of the United Kingdom, thus forcing his abdication from the throne.
November 30 » In London, the Crystal Palace is destroyed by fire.
Day of death February 14, 1961
The temperature on February 14, 1961 was between 1.9 °C and 14.9 °C and averaged 8.3 °C. There was 8.0 hours of sunshine (81%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
March 30 » The Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs is signed in New York City.
April 16 » In a nationally broadcast speech, Cuban leader Fidel Castro declares that he is a Marxist–Leninist and that Cuba is going to adopt Communism.
April 27 » Sierra Leone is granted its independence from the United Kingdom, with Milton Margai as the first Prime Minister.
May 19 » At Silchar Railway Station, Assam, 11 Bengalis die when police open fire on protesters demanding state recognition of Bengali language in the Bengali Language Movement.
September 16 » The United States National Hurricane Research Project drops eight cylinders of silver iodide into the eyewall of Hurricane Esther. Wind speed reduces by 10%, giving rise to Project Stormfury.
September 20 » Greek general Konstantinos Dovas becomes Prime Minister of Greece.
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