The temperature on August 27, 1918 was between 8.6 °C and 16.6 °C and averaged 14.0 °C. There was 8.9 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-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.
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.
May 14 » Cape Town Mayor, Sir Harry Hands, inaugurates the Two-minute silence.
October 4 » World War I: An explosion kills more than 100 people and destroys a Shell Loading Plant in New Jersey.
October 26 » Erich Ludendorff, quartermaster-general of the Imperial German Army, is dismissed by Kaiser Wilhelm II for refusing to cooperate in peace negotiations.
November 18 » Latvia declares its independence from Russia.
November 21 » A pogrom takes place in Lwów (now Lviv); over three days, at least 50 Jews and 270 Ukrainian Christians are killed by Poles.
November 25 » Vojvodina, formerly Austro-Hungarian crown land, proclaims its secession from Austria–Hungary to join the Kingdom of Serbia.
Day of death August 16, 2008
The temperature on August 16, 2008 was between 6.8 °C and 22.8 °C and averaged 15.9 °C. There was 10.9 hours of sunshine (74%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, February 22, 2007 to Thursday, October 14, 2010 the cabinet Balkenende IV, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
May 30 » Convention on Cluster Munitions is adopted.
August 1 » Eleven mountaineers from international expeditions died on K2, the second-highest mountain on Earth in the worst single accident in the history of K2 mountaineering.
September 13 » Delhi, India, is hit by a series of bomb blasts, resulting in 30 deaths and 130 injuries.
September 26 » Swiss pilot and inventor Yves Rossy becomes first person to fly a jet engine-powered wing across the English Channel.
September 27 » CNSA astronaut Zhai Zhigang becomes the first Chinese person to perform a spacewalk.
November 25 » Cyclone Nisha strikes northern Sri Lanka, killing 15 people and displacing 90,000 others while dealing the region the highest rainfall in nine decades.
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