The temperature on March 1, 1914 was between -0.9 °C and 10.2 °C and averaged 3.6 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. There was 1.0 hours of sunshine (9%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. 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.
July 11 » Babe Ruth makes his debut in Major League Baseball.
August 12 » World War I: The Battle of Halen a.k.a. Battle of the Silver Helmets a clash between large Belgian and German cavalry formations at Halen, Belgium.
August 25 » World War I: The library of the Catholic University of Leuven is deliberately destroyed by the German Army. Hundreds of thousands of irreplaceable volumes and Gothic and Renaissance manuscripts are lost.
August 27 » World War I: Battle of Étreux: A British rearguard action by the Royal Munster Fusiliers during the Great Retreat.
October 5 » World War I: An aircraft successfully destroys another aircraft with gunfire.
November 15 » Harry Turner becomes the first player to die from game-related injuries in the "Ohio League", the direct predecessor to the National Football League.
Day of marriage April 14, 1944
The temperature on April 14, 1944 was between 8.4 °C and 17.6 °C and averaged 12.9 °C. There was 4.3 mm of rain during 0.8 hours. There was 7.3 hours of sunshine (53%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. 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 27 » World War II: The 900-day Siege of Leningrad is lifted.
April 14 » Bombay explosion: A massive explosion in Bombay harbor kills 300 and causes economic damage valued then at 20million pounds.
June 20 » The experimental MW 18014 V-2 rocket reaches an altitude of 176km, becoming the first man-made object to reach outer space.
August 16 » First flight of a jet with forward-swept wings, the Junkers Ju 287.
August 22 » World War II: Holocaust of Kedros in Crete by German forces.
November 12 » World War II: The Royal Air Force launches 29 Avro Lancaster bombers, which sink the German battleship Tirpitz, with 12,000lb Tallboy bombs off Tromsø, Norway.
Day of death July 31, 2001
The temperature on July 31, 2001 was between 14.6 °C and 24.4 °C and averaged 19.5 °C. There was 6.5 hours of sunshine (42%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. Source: KNMI
January 16 » Congolese President Laurent-Désiré Kabila is assassinated by one of his own bodyguards.
February 13 » An earthquake measuring 7.6 on the Richter magnitude scale hits El Salvador, killing at least 944.
March 16 » A series of bomb blasts that took place in the city of Shijiazhuang, China killed 108 people and injured 38 others, was the biggest mass murder in China in decades.
June 23 » The 8.4 Mw southern Peru earthquake shakes coastal Peru with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe). A destructive tsunami followed, leaving at least 74 people dead, and 2,687 injured.
September 13 » Civilian aircraft traffic resumes in the United States after the September 11 attacks.
September 17 » The New York Stock Exchange reopens for trading after the September 11 attacks, the longest closure since the Great Depression.
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