The temperature on March 6, 1914 was between 6.4 °C and 10.9 °C and averaged 9.1 °C. There was 1.5 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) 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.
August 6 » World War I: Serbia declares war on Germany; Austria declares war on Russia.
August 15 » The Panama Canal opens to traffic with the transit of the cargo ship SSAncon.
August 30 » World War I: Germans defeat the Russians in the Battle of Tannenberg.
October 29 » Ottoman entry into World War I.
November 23 » Mexican Revolution: The last of U.S. forces withdraw from Veracruz, occupied seven months earlier in response to the Tampico Affair.
November 28 » World War I: Following a war-induced closure in July, the New York Stock Exchange re-opens for bond trading.
Day of marriage November 12, 1942
The temperature on November 12, 1942 was between -0.1 °C and 5.5 °C and averaged 3.3 °C. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east. 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 16 » Crash of TWA Flight 3, killing all 22 aboard, including film star Carole Lombard.
January 25 » World War II: Thailand declares war on the United States and United Kingdom.
January 30 » World War II: Battle of Ambon. Japanese forces invade the island of Ambon in the Dutch East Indies. Some 300 captured Allied troops are massacred at Laha airfield. Three-fourths of remaining POWs will not have survived by the end of the war, including 250 men who will be shipped to Hainan Island in South China Sea and never returned.
February 10 » World War II: Imperial Japanese Army capture Banjarmasin, capital of Borneo in Dutch East Indies.
May 10 » World War II: The Thai Phayap Army invades the Shan States during the Burma Campaign.
July 27 » World War II: Allied forces successfully halt the final Axis advance into Egypt.
Day of death January 1, 1996
The temperature on January 1, 1996 was between -2.2 °C and -0.5 °C and averaged -1.4 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 0.6 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east. 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.
February 1 » The Communications Decency Act is passed by the U.S. Congress.
May 27 » First Chechen War: the Russian President Boris Yeltsin meets with Chechnyan rebels for the first time and negotiates a cease-fire.
August 6 » NASA announces that the ALH 84001 meteorite, thought to originate from Mars, contains evidence of primitive life-forms.
October 2 » The Electronic Freedom of Information Act Amendments are signed by U.S. President Bill Clinton.
November 5 » Pakistani President Farooq Leghari dismisses the government of Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto and dissolves the National Assembly of Pakistan.
December 9 » Gwen Jacob is acquitted of committing an indecent act, giving women the right to be topfree in Ontario, Canada.
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