The temperature on August 28, 1919 was between 5.7 °C and 21.5 °C and averaged 15.7 °C. There was 3.0 mm of rain. There was 1.0 hours of sunshine (7%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from September 9, 1918 to September 18, 1922 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck I, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
January 5 » The German Workers' Party, which would become the Nazi Party, is founded in Munich.
January 22 » Act Zluky is signed, unifying the Ukrainian People's Republic and the West Ukrainian National Republic.
May 8 » Edward George Honey proposes the idea of a moment of silence to commemorate the Armistice of 11 November 1918 which ended World War I.
September 22 » The steel strike of 1919, led by the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers, begins in Pennsylvania before spreading across the United States.
December 17 » Uruguay becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
December 21 » American anarchist Emma Goldman is deported to Russia.
Day of death January 8, 1999
The temperature on January 8, 1999 was between 3.0 °C and 7.5 °C and averaged 5.8 °C. There was 5.1 mm of rain during 3.8 hours. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
February 13 » The last hockey game is played in Maple Leaf Gardens: the Toronto Maple Leafs lose 6–2 to the Chicago Blackhawks.
April 18 » Wayne Gretzky, the National Hockey League's all-time points scorer, plays his final game at Madison Square Garden as a teammate of the New York Rangers in a 2-1 overtime loss to the Pittsburgh Penguins. Gretzky recorded his final career point, an assist, bringing his career point total to 2,857.
June 1 » American Airlines Flight 1420 slides and crashes while landing at Little Rock National Airport, killing 11 people on a flight from Dallas to Little Rock.
October 31 » EgyptAir Flight 990 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean near Nantucket, killing all 217 people on board.
November 30 » Exxon and Mobil sign a US$73.7 billion agreement to merge, thus creating ExxonMobil, the world's largest company.
December 3 » NASA loses radio contact with the Mars Polar Lander moments before the spacecraft enters the Martian atmosphere.
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