The temperature on February 25, 1914 was between 1.1 °C and 7.6 °C and averaged 4.4 °C. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). 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.
January 5 » The Ford Motor Company announces an eight-hour workday and minimum daily wage of $5 in salary plus bonuses.
April 24 » The Franck–Hertz experiment, a pillar of quantum mechanics, is presented to the German Physical Society.
May 17 » The Protocol of Corfu is signed, recognising full autonomy to Northern Epirus under nominal Albanian sovereignty.
August 5 » In Cleveland, Ohio, the first electric traffic light is installed.
September 18 » The Irish Home Rule Act becomes law, but is delayed until after World War I.
October 5 » World War I: An aircraft successfully destroys another aircraft with gunfire.
Day of marriage May 9, 1940
The temperature on May 9, 1940 was between 6.7 °C and 19.7 °C and averaged 13.4 °C. There was 13.3 hours of sunshine (87%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from August 10, 1939 to September 3, 1940 the cabinet De Geer II, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
In The Netherlands , there was from September 3, 1940 to July 27, 1941 the cabinet Gerbrandy I, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
February 10 » The Soviet Union begins mass deportations of Polish citizens from occupied eastern Poland to Siberia.
March 3 » Five people are killed in an arson attack on the offices of the communist newspaper Flamman in Luleå, Sweden.
March 12 » Winter War: Finland signs the Moscow Peace Treaty with the Soviet Union, ceding almost all of Finnish Karelia.
June 17 » The three Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania fall under the occupation of the Soviet Union.
August 3 » World War II: Italian forces begin the invasion of British Somaliland.
November 9 » Warsaw is awarded the Virtuti Militari.
Day of death December 30, 1985
The temperature on December 30, 1985 was between -4.3 °C and -2.2 °C and averaged -2.9 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, November 4, 1982 to Monday, July 14, 1986 the cabinet Lubbers I, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
January 1 » The first British mobile phone call is made by Michael Harrison to his father Sir Ernest Harrison, chairman of Vodafone.
January 7 » Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency launches Sakigake, Japan's first interplanetary spacecraft and the first deep space probe to be launched by any country other than the United States or the Soviet Union.
February 19 » William J. Schroeder becomes the first recipient of an artificial heart to leave the hospital.
April 23 » Coca-Cola changes its formula and releases New Coke. The response is overwhelmingly negative, and the original formula is back on the market in less than three months.
May 20 » Radio Martí, part of the Voice of America service, begins broadcasting to Cuba.
October 7 » The Mameyes landslide kills almost 200 people in Puerto Rico.
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