The temperature on December 3, 1910 was between 0.9 °C and 3.6 °C and averaged 2.4 °C. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east. Source: KNMI
January 15 » Construction ends on the Buffalo Bill Dam in Wyoming, United States, which was the highest dam in the world at the time, at 325ft (99m).
July 16 » John Robertson Duigan makes the first flight of the Duigan pusher biplane, the first aircraft built in Australia.
July 24 » The Ottoman Empire captures the city of Shkodër, putting down the Albanian Revolt of 1910.
October 1 » A large bomb destroys the Los Angeles Times building, killing 21.
October 6 » Eleftherios Venizelos is elected prime minister of Greece for the first of seven times.
December 21 » An underground explosion at the Hulton Bank Colliery No. 3 Pit in Over Hulton, Westhoughton, England, kills 344 miners.
Day of marriage May 19, 1949
The temperature on May 19, 1949 was between 4.5 °C and 20.0 °C and averaged 13.8 °C. There was 10.1 hours of sunshine (64%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. Source: KNMI
From August 7, 1948 till March 15, 1951 the Netherlands had a cabinet Drees - Van Schaik with the prime ministers Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) and Mr. J.R.H. van Schaik (KVP).
January 26 » The Hale telescope at Palomar Observatory sees first light under the direction of Edwin Hubble, becoming the largest aperture optical telescope (until BTA-6 is built in 1976).
March 31 » The Dominion of Newfoundland joins the Canadian Confederation and becomes the 10th Province of Canada.
May 23 » Cold War: The Western occupying powers approve the Basic Law and establish a new German state, the Federal Republic of Germany.
June 5 » Thailand elects Orapin Chaiyakan, the first female member of Thailand's Parliament.
August 5 » In Ecuador, an earthquake destroys 50 towns and kills more than 6,000.
October 28 » An Air France Lockheed Constellation crashes in the Azores, killing all 48 people on board.
Day of death August 17, 1998
The temperature on August 17, 1998 was between 11.3 °C and 23.2 °C and averaged 17.8 °C. There was 6.4 hours of sunshine (44%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, August 22, 1994 to Monday, August 3, 1998 the cabinet a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabinet-Kok_I" class="extern">Kok I, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, August 3, 1998 to Monday, July 22, 2002 the cabinet Kok II, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
January 1 » Following a currency reform, Russia begins to circulate new rubles to stem inflation and promote confidence.
May 21 » In Miami, five abortion clinics are attacked by a butyric acid attacker.
October 7 » Matthew Shepard, a gay student at the University of Wyoming, is found tied to a fence after being savagely beaten by two young adults in Laramie, Wyoming. He died five days later.
October 12 » Matthew Shepard, a gay student at University of Wyoming, dies five days after he was beaten outside of Laramie.
October 29 » Hurricane Mitch, the second deadliest Atlantic hurricane in history, makes landfall in Honduras.
November 26 » Tony Blair becomes the first Prime Minister of the United Kingdom to address the Oireachtas, the parliament of the Republic of Ireland.
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