The temperature on May 21, 1916 was between 8.7 °C and 24.1 °C and averaged 16.9 °C. There was 12.1 hours of sunshine (76%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) 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.
February 29 » Child labor: In South Carolina, the minimum working age for factory, mill, and mine workers is raised from 12 to 14 years old.
April 24 » Ernest Shackleton and five men of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition launch a lifeboat from uninhabited Elephant Island in the Southern Ocean to organise a rescue for the crew of the sunken Endurance.
April 29 » World War I: The UK's 6th Indian Division surrenders to Ottoman Forces at the Siege of Kut in one of the largest surrenders of British forces up to that point.
August 30 » Ernest Shackleton completes the rescue of all of his men stranded on Elephant Island in Antarctica.
November 7 » Boston Elevated Railway Company's streetcar No. 393 smashes through the warning gates of the open Summer Street drawbridge in Boston, Massachusetts, plunging into the frigid waters of Fort Point Channel, killing 46 people.
November 7 » Jeannette Rankin is the first woman elected to the United States Congress.
Day of marriage March 5, 1942
The temperature on March 5, 1942 was between -5.6 °C and -1.1 °C and averaged -4.2 °C. There was 0.8 mm of rain during 1.8 hours. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. 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 2 » The Osvald Group is responsible for the first, active event of anti-Nazi resistance in Norway, to protest the inauguration of Vidkun Quisling.
May 6 » World War II: On Corregidor, the last American forces in the Philippines surrender to the Japanese.
September 21 » The Holocaust in Ukraine: On the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur, Nazis send over 1,000 Jews of Pidhaitsi to Bełżec extermination camp.
September 27 » Last day of the Matanikau action on Guadalcanal as United States Marines barely escape after being surrounded by Japanese forces.
October 6 » World War II: American troops force the Japanese from their positions east of the Matanikau River on Guadalcanal.
December 2 » World War II: During the Manhattan Project, a team led by Enrico Fermi initiates the first artificial self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction.
Day of death January 25, 1970
The temperature on January 25, 1970 was between 3.0 °C and 8.0 °C and averaged 5.9 °C. There was 9.1 mm of rain during 7.6 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. Source: KNMI
January 1 » The defined beginning of Unix time, at 00:00:00.
January 12 » Biafra capitulates, ending the Nigerian Civil War.
March 26 » South Vietnamese President Nguyễn Văn Thiệu implements a land reform program to solve the problem of land tenancy.
April 1 » The first of over 670,000 AMC Gremlins are released into North America to compete with foreign imported cars.
October 12 » Vietnam War: Vietnamization continues as President Nixon announces that the United States will withdraw 40,000 more troops before Christmas.
October 17 » FLQ terrorists murder Quebec Vice-Premier and Minister of Labour Pierre Laporte.
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