The temperature on July 15, 1913 was between 14.5 °C and 20.8 °C and averaged 17.1 °C. There was 31.2 mm of rain. There was 0.5 hours of sunshine (3%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from February 12, 1908 to August 29, 1913 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. Th. Heemskerk (AR) as prime minister.
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 13 » The 13th Dalai Lama proclaims Tibetan independence following a period of domination by Manchu Qing dynasty and initiated a period of almost four decades of independence.
February 20 » King O'Malley drives in the first survey peg to mark commencement of work on the construction of Canberra.
May 14 » Governor of New York William Sulzer approves the charter for the Rockefeller Foundation, which begins operations with a $100million donation from John D. Rockefeller.
July 4 » President Woodrow Wilson addresses American Civil War veterans at the Great Reunion of 1913.
October 14 » Senghenydd colliery disaster, the United Kingdom's worst coal mining accident, claims the lives of 439 miners.
December 21 » Arthur Wynne's "word-cross", the first crossword puzzle, is published in the New York World.
Day of marriage June 25, 1937
The temperature on June 25, 1937 was between 6.7 °C and 18.5 °C and averaged 13.3 °C. There was 13.9 hours of sunshine (83%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north. Source: KNMI
July 8 » Turkey, Iran, Iraq and Afghanistan sign the Treaty of Saadabad.
August 1 » Josip Broz Tito reads the resolution "Manifesto of constitutional congress of KPH" to the constitutive congress of KPH (Croatian Communist Party) in woods near Samobor.
September 21 » J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit is published.
October 11 » The Duke and Duchess of Windsor tour Nazi Germany for 12 days and meet Adolf Hitler on the 22nd.
December 12 » Second Sino-Japanese War: USS Panay incident: Japanese aircraft bomb and sink U.S. gunboat USSPanay on the Yangtze river in China.
December 21 » Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the world's first full-length animated feature, premieres at the Carthay Circle Theatre.
Day of death July 17, 1988
The temperature on July 17, 1988 was between 11.9 °C and 16.7 °C and averaged 14.8 °C. There was 2.3 mm of rain during 5.2 hours. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, November 4, 1986 to Tuesday, November 7, 1989 the cabinet Lubbers II, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
February 29 » Svend Robinson becomes the first member of the House of Commons of Canada to come out as gay.
May 9 » New Parliament House, Canberra officially opens.
May 29 » The U.S. President Ronald Reagan begins his first visit to the Soviet Union when he arrives in Moscow for a superpower summit with the Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev.
August 28 » Ramstein air show disaster: Three aircraft of the Frecce Tricolori demonstration team collide and the wreckage falls into the crowd. Seventy-five are killed and 346 seriously injured.
December 7 » The 6.8 Ms Armenian earthquake shakes the northern part of the country with a maximum MSK intensity of X (Devastating), killing 25,000–50,000 and injuring 31,000–130,000.
December 21 » A bomb explodes on board Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, killing 270. This is to date the deadliest air disaster to occur in British soil.
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