The temperature on September 25, 1911 was between 5.9 °C and 20.3 °C and averaged 12.9 °C. There was 7.7 hours of sunshine (64%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
January 14 » Roald Amundsen's South Pole expedition makes landfall on the eastern edge of the Ross Ice Shelf.
January 26 » Glenn Curtiss flies the first successful American seaplane.
May 15 » More than 300 Chinese immigrants are killed in the Torreón massacre when the forces of the Mexican Revolution led by Emilio Madero take the city of Torreón from the Federales.
June 16 » IBM founded as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company in Endicott, New York.
October 10 » The day after a bomb explodes prematurely, the Wuchang Uprising begins against the Chinese monarchy.
November 3 » Chevrolet officially enters the automobile market in competition with the Ford Model T.
Day of marriage May 16, 1942
The temperature on May 16, 1942 was between 7.9 °C and 21.5 °C and averaged 14.8 °C. There was 10.9 hours of sunshine (69%). 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.
February 27 » World War II: During the Battle of the Java Sea, an Allied strike force is defeated by a Japanese task force in the Java Sea in the Dutch East Indies.
February 28 » The heavy cruiser USSHouston is sunk in the Battle of Sunda Strait with 693 crew members killed, along with HMASPerth which lost 375 men.
May 9 » Holocaust: The SS executes 588 Jewish residents of the Podolian town of Zinkiv (Khmelnytska oblast, Ukraine). The Zoludek Ghetto (in Belarus) is destroyed and all its inhabitants executed or deported.
June 3 » World War II: Japan begins the Aleutian Islands Campaign by bombing Unalaska Island.
June 7 » World War II: Aleutian Islands Campaign: Imperial Japanese soldiers begin occupying the American islands of Attu and Kiska, in the Aleutian Islands off Alaska.
June 11 » Free French Forces retreat from Bir Hakeim after having successfully delayed the Axis advance.
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