The temperature on March 29, 1917 was between 0.4 °C and 7.9 °C and averaged 3.9 °C. There was 3.0 mm of rain. There was 0.2 hours of sunshine (2%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the south-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.
April 9 » World War I: The Battle of Arras: The battle begins with Canadian Corps executing a massive assault on Vimy Ridge.
June 13 » World War I: The deadliest German air raid on London of the war is carried out by Gotha G.IV bombers and results in 162 deaths, including 46 children, and 432 injuries.
July 27 » World War I: The Allies reach the Yser Canal at the Battle of Passchendaele.
October 13 » The "Miracle of the Sun" is witnessed by an estimated 70,000 people in the Cova da Iria in Portugal.
October 25 » Old Style date of the October Revolution in Russia.
November 2 » The Military Revolutionary Committee of the Petrograd Soviet, in charge of preparation and carrying out the Russian Revolution, holds its first meeting.
Day of death October 25, 1999
The temperature on October 25, 1999 was between 10.9 °C and 14.4 °C and averaged 12.2 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain during 1.1 hours. There was 1.2 hours of sunshine (12%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
January 3 » The Mars Polar Lander is launched by NASA.
June 12 » Kosovo War: Operation Joint Guardian begins when a NATO-led United Nations peacekeeping force (KFor) enters the province of Kosovo in Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
July 23 » Space Shuttle Columbia launches on STS-93, with Eileen Collins becoming the first female space shuttle commander. The shuttle also carried and deployed the Chandra X-ray Observatory.
July 26 » Kargil conflict officially comes to an end. The Indian Army announces the complete eviction of Pakistani intruders.
September 30 » The Tokaimura nuclear accident causes the deaths of two technicians in Japan's second-worst nuclear accident.
December 31 » The U.S. government hands control of the Panama Canal (as well all the adjacent land to the canal known as the Panama Canal Zone) to Panama. This act complied with the signing of the 1977 Torrijos–Carter Treaties.
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