The temperature on March 7, 1914 was between 4.6 °C and 8.8 °C and averaged 5.8 °C. There was 4.6 hours of sunshine (41%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) 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.
January 5 » The Ford Motor Company announces an eight-hour workday and minimum daily wage of $5 in salary plus bonuses.
January 9 » The Phi Beta Sigma fraternity is founded by African-American students at Howard University in Washington D.C., United States.
August 23 » World War I: Japan declares war on Germany.
August 30 » World War I: Germans defeat the Russians in the Battle of Tannenberg.
September 9 » World War I: The creation of the Canadian Automobile Machine Gun Brigade, the first fully mechanized unit in the British Army.
December 23 » World War I: Australian and New Zealand troops arrive in Cairo, Egypt.
Day of marriage April 29, 1943
The temperature on April 29, 1943 was between 0.2 °C and 13.9 °C and averaged 8.1 °C. There was 11.9 hours of sunshine (81%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. 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 23 » World War II: Troops of the British Eighth Army capture Tripoli in Libya from the German–Italian Panzer Army.
May 13 » World War II: Operations Vulcan and Strike force the surrender of the last Axis troops in Tunisia.
August 2 » World War II: The Motor Torpedo Boat PT-109 is rammed by the Japanese destroyer Amagiri and sinks. Lt. John F. Kennedy, future U.S. president, saves all but two of his crew.
August 17 » World War II: First Québec Conference of Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and William Lyon Mackenzie King begins.
October 13 » World War II: Marshal Pietro Badoglio announces that Italy has officially declared war on Germany.
October 17 » The Burma Railway (Burma–Thailand Railway) is completed.
Day of death December 16, 1999
The temperature on December 16, 1999 was between -4.1 °C and 5.2 °C and averaged 1.4 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 0.7 hours. There was 1.3 hours of sunshine (17%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
February 11 » Pluto crosses Neptune's orbit, ending a nearly 20-year period when it was closer to the Sun than the gas giant; Pluto is not expected to interact with Neptune's orbit again until 2231.
February 23 » Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Öcalan is charged with treason in Ankara, Turkey.
March 29 » The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above the 10,000 mark (10,006.78) for the first time, during the height of the dot-com bubble.
April 14 » A severe hailstorm strikes Sydney, Australia causing A$2.3billion in insured damages, the most costly natural disaster in Australian history.
August 31 » The first of a series of bombings in Moscow kills one person and wounds 40 others.
October 12 » The former Autonomous Soviet Republic of Abkhazia declares its independence from Georgia.
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