The temperature on July 30, 1914 was between 11.6 °C and 20.2 °C and averaged 15.2 °C. There was 20.0 mm of rain. There was 3.8 hours of sunshine (24%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. 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 » Mexican Revolution: One of the world's first naval/air skirmishes takes place off the coast of western Mexico.
June 23 » Mexican Revolution: Pancho Villa takes Zacatecas from Victoriano Huerta.
August 3 » World War I: Germany declares war against France, while Romania declares its neutrality.
August 6 » World War I: Serbia declares war on Germany; Austria declares war on Russia.
September 18 » The Irish Home Rule Act becomes law, but is delayed until after World War I.
November 9 » SMSEmden is sunk by HMASSydney in the Battle of Cocos.
Day of death August 2, 1914
The temperature on August 2, 1914 was between 13.7 °C and 24.4 °C and averaged 17.6 °C. There was 13.2 mm of rain. There was 3.8 hours of sunshine (25%). 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.
June 28 » Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife Sophie are assassinated in Sarajevo; this is the casus belli of World War I.
July 4 » The funeral of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie takes place in Vienna, six days after their assassinations in Sarajevo.
August 5 » World War I: The guns of Point Nepean fort at Port Phillip Heads in Victoria (Australia) fire across the bows of the Norddeutscher Lloyd steamer SSPfalz which is attempting to leave the Port of Melbourne in ignorance of the declaration of war and she is detained; this is said to be the first Allied shot of the War.
August 6 » World War I: First Battle of the Atlantic: Two days after the United Kingdom had declared war on Germany over the German invasion of Belgium, ten German U-boats leave their base in Heligoland to attack Royal Navy warships in the North Sea.
August 28 » World War I: German troops take the city of Namur in Belgium.
September 22 » A German submarine sinks three British cruisers over a seventy-minute period, killing almost 1500 sailors.
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