The average temperature on December 30, 1914 was 1.7 °C. There was 5.7 hours of sunshine (73%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) 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 20 » Nineteen men, women, and children die in the Ludlow Massacre during a Colorado coal-miners' strike.
August 15 » The Panama Canal opens to traffic with the transit of the cargo ship SSAncon.
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 29 » World War I: Start of the Battle of St. Quentin in which the French Fifth Army counter-attacked the invading Germans at Saint-Quentin, Aisne.
September 3 » William, Prince of Albania leaves the country after just six months due to opposition to his rule.
September 16 » World War I: The Siege of Przemyśl (present-day Poland) begins.
Day of marriage October 20, 1945
The temperature on October 20, 1945 was between 4.5 °C and 17.5 °C and averaged 11.2 °C. There was 7.4 hours of sunshine (71%). 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.
In The Netherlands , there was from February 23, 1945 to June 24, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy III, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
From June 24, 1945 till July 3, 1946 the Netherlands had a cabinet Schermerhorn - Drees with the prime ministers Prof. ir. W. Schermerhorn (VDB) and W. Drees (PvdA).
January 1 » World War II: In retaliation for the Malmedy massacre, U.S. troops kill 60 German POWs at Chenogne.
January 16 » Adolf Hitler moves into his underground bunker, the so-called Führerbunker.
February 13 » World War II: The siege of Budapest concludes with the unconditional surrender of German and Hungarian forces to the Red Army.
May 6 » World War II: The Prague Offensive, the last major battle of the Eastern Front, begins.
June 22 » World War II: The Battle of Okinawa comes to an end.
November 10 » Heavy fighting in Surabaya between Indonesian nationalists and returning colonialists after World War II, today celebrated as Heroes' Day (Hari Pahlawan).
Day of death March 14, 1995
The temperature on March 14, 1995 was between -0.4 °C and 7.4 °C and averaged 3.5 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain during 0.8 hours. There was 8.9 hours of sunshine (76%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, August 22, 1994 to Monday, August 3, 1998 the cabinet a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabinet-Kok_I" class="extern">Kok I, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
January 1 » The World Trade Organization comes into being.
January 30 » Workers from the National Institutes of Health announce the success of clinical trials testing the first preventive treatment for sickle-cell disease.
March 2 » Researchers at Fermilab announce the discovery of the top quark.
August 4 » Operation Storm begins in Croatia.
September 22 » The Nagerkovil school bombing is carried out by the Sri Lanka Air Force in which at least 34 die, most of them ethnic Tamil schoolchildren.
October 27 » Former Prime Minister of Italy Bettino Craxi is convicted in absentia of corruption.
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