The temperature on July 31, 1914 was between 12.4 °C and 21.3 °C and averaged 16.4 °C. There was 5.2 hours of sunshine (33%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north. 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.
July 11 » Babe Ruth makes his debut in Major League Baseball.
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 30 » World War I: Germans defeat the Russians in the Battle of Tannenberg.
September 1 » St. Petersburg, Russia, changes its name to Petrograd.
December 25 » A series of unofficial truces occur across the Western Front to celebrate Christmas.
Day of marriage October 5, 1935
The temperature on October 5, 1935 was between 8.2 °C and 15.6 °C and averaged 11.7 °C. There was 4.4 hours of sunshine (39%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
July 24 » The Dust Bowl heat wave reaches its peak, sending temperatures to 109°F (43°C) in Chicago and 104°F (40°C) in Milwaukee.
August 31 » In an attempt to stay out of the growing tensions concerning Germany and Japan, the United States passes the first of its Neutrality Acts.
September 8 » US Senator from Louisiana Huey Long is fatally shot in the Louisiana State Capitol building.
September 30 » The Hoover Dam, astride the border between the U.S. states of Arizona and Nevada, is dedicated.
November 24 » The Senegalese Socialist Party holds its second congress.
December 12 » Lebensborn Project, a Nazi reproduction program, is founded by Heinrich Himmler.
Day of death January 5, 1971
The temperature on January 5, 1971 was between -14.0 °C and -6.3 °C and averaged -9.0 °C. There was 5.1 hours of sunshine (65%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. Source: KNMI
July 15 » The United Red Army is founded in Japan.
September 15 » The first Greenpeace ship sets sail to protest against nuclear testing on Amchitka Island.
October 27 » The Democratic Republic of the Congo is renamed Zaire.
November 27 » The Soviet space program's Mars 2 orbiter releases a descent module. It malfunctions and crashes, but it is the first man-made object to reach the surface of Mars.
December 1 » Cambodian Civil War: Khmer Rouge rebels intensify assaults on Cambodian government positions, forcing their retreat from Kompong Thmar and nearby Ba Ray.
December 7 » Pakistan President Yahya Khan announces the formation of a coalition government with Nurul Amin as Prime Minister and Zulfikar Ali Bhutto as Deputy Prime Minister.
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