The temperature on June 11, 1917 was between 12.4 °C and 27.0 °C and averaged 19.2 °C. There was 1.6 mm of rain. There was 11.3 hours of sunshine (68%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east. 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.
February 5 » The Congress of the United States passes the Immigration Act of 1917 over President Woodrow Wilson's veto.
March 1 » The Zimmermann Telegram is reprinted in newspapers across the United States after the U.S. government releases its unencrypted text.
May 13 » Three children report the first apparition of Our Lady of Fátima in Fátima, Portugal.
November 20 » World War I: Battle of Cambrai begins: British forces make early progress in an attack on German positions but are later pushed back.
November 25 » World War I: German forces defeat Portuguese army of about 1,200 at Negomano on the border of modern-day Mozambique and Tanzania.
December 9 » World War I: Field Marshal Allenby captures Jerusalem, Palestine.
Day of marriage August 15, 1942
The temperature on August 15, 1942 was between 10.3 °C and 22.2 °C and averaged 17.2 °C. There was 8.6 hours of sunshine (58%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from July 27, 1941 to February 23, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy II, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
January 24 » World War II: The Allies bombard Bangkok, leading Thailand, then under Japanese control, to declare war against the United States and United Kingdom.
February 15 » World War II: Fall of Singapore. Following an assault by Japanese forces, the British General Arthur Percival surrenders. About 80,000 Indian, United Kingdom and Australian soldiers become prisoners of war, the largest surrender of British-led military personnel in history.
September 26 » Holocaust: Senior SS official August Frank issues a memorandum detailing how Jews should be "evacuated".
October 11 » World War II: Off Guadalcanal, United States Navy ships intercept and defeat a Japanese force.
December 2 » World War II: During the Manhattan Project, a team led by Enrico Fermi initiates the first artificial self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction.
December 4 » World War II: Carlson's patrol during the Guadalcanal Campaign ends.
Day of death April 19, 1970
The temperature on April 19, 1970 was between 4.3 °C and 13.4 °C and averaged 8.3 °C. There was 4.4 hours of sunshine (31%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
January 15 » Muammar Gaddafi is proclaimed premier of Libya.
April 1 » President Richard Nixon signs the Public Health Cigarette Smoking Act into law, requiring the Surgeon General's warnings on tobacco products and banning cigarette advertising on television and radio in the United States, effective 1 January 1971.
April 17 » Apollo program: The ill-fated Apollo 13 spacecraft returns to Earth safely.
July 21 » After 11 years of construction, the Aswan High Dam in Egypt is completed.
August 9 » LANSA Flight 502 crashes after takeoff from Alejandro Velasco Astete International Airport in Cusco, Peru, killing 99 of the 100 people on board, as well as two people on the ground.
December 15 » Soviet spacecraft Venera 7 successfully lands on Venus. It is the first successful soft landing on another planet.
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