The temperature on July 21, 1917 was between 9.0 °C and 19.6 °C and averaged 14.5 °C. There was 13.5 hours of sunshine (84%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest. 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.
January 22 » World War I: President Woodrow Wilson of the still-neutral United States calls for "peace without victory" in Europe.
February 5 » The Congress of the United States passes the Immigration Act of 1917 over President Woodrow Wilson's veto.
March 4 » Jeannette Rankin of Montana becomes the first female member of the United States House of Representatives.
March 31 » According to the terms of the Treaty of the Danish West Indies, the islands become American possessions.
May 13 » Three children report the first apparition of Our Lady of Fátima in Fátima, Portugal.
December 15 » World War I: An armistice between Russia and the Central Powers is signed.
Day of death May 22, 1937
The temperature on May 22, 1937 was between 4.6 °C and 19.4 °C and averaged 13.6 °C. There was 11.1 hours of sunshine (69%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
February 16 » Wallace H. Carothers receives a United States patent for nylon.
February 19 » Yekatit 12: During a public ceremony at the Viceregal Palace (the former Imperial residence) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, two Ethiopian nationalists of Eritrean origin attempt to kill viceroy Rodolfo Graziani with a number of grenades.
May 6 » Hindenburg disaster: The German zeppelin Hindenburg catches fire and is destroyed within a minute while attempting to dock at Lakehurst, New Jersey. Thirty-six people are killed.
August 24 » Spanish Civil War: Sovereign Council of Asturias and León is proclaimed in Gijón.
August 24 » Spanish Civil War: the Basque Army surrenders to the Italian Corpo Truppe Volontarie following the Santoña Agreement.
December 12 » Second Sino-Japanese War: USS Panay incident: Japanese aircraft bomb and sink U.S. gunboat USSPanay on the Yangtze river in China.
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