The temperature on April 8, 1918 was between 6.1 °C and 13.3 °C and averaged 8.3 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain. There was 4.6 hours of sunshine (34%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. 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.
In The Netherlands , there was from September 9, 1918 to September 18, 1922 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck I, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
May 14 » Cape Town Mayor, Sir Harry Hands, inaugurates the Two-minute silence.
August 8 » World War I: The Battle of Amiens begins a string of almost continuous Allied victories with a push through the German front lines (Hundred Days Offensive).
August 11 » World War I: The Battle of Amiens ends.
August 13 » Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (BMW) established as a public company in Germany.
August 21 » World War I: The Second Battle of the Somme begins.
November 23 » Heber J. Grant succeeds Joseph F. Smith as the seventh president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Day of marriage May 29, 1947
The temperature on May 29, 1947 was between 10.4 °C and 23.9 °C and averaged 18.3 °C. There was 14.4 hours of sunshine (88%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east. Source: KNMI
January 6 » Pan American Airlines becomes the first commercial airline to offer a round-the-world ticket.
February 12 » Christian Dior unveils a "New Look", helping Paris regain its position as the capital of the fashion world.
August 14 » Pakistan gains Independence from the British Empire and joins the Commonwealth of Nations.
August 17 » The Radcliffe Line, the border between the Dominions of India and Pakistan, is revealed.
October 22 » The Kashmir conflict between India and Pakistan begins, having started just after the partition of India.
October 26 » Kashmir conflict: The Maharaja of Kashmir and Jammu signs the Instrument of Accession with India.
Day of death June 3, 2013
The temperature on June 3, 2013 was between 5.7 °C and 14.8 °C and averaged 10.8 °C. There was 4.8 hours of sunshine (29%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, November 5, 2012 to Thursday, October 26, 2017 the cabinet Rutte II, with Mark Rutte (VVD) as prime minister.
January 29 » Alabama bunker hostage crisis: After shooting and killing of school bus driver, 66 years old Charles Albert Poland, Jr, by 65 year old Vietnam War era veteran, Jimmy Lee Dykes.
February 27 » A shooting takes place at a factory in Menznau, Switzerland, in which five people (including the perpetrator) are killed and five others injured.
April 17 » An explosion at a fertilizer plant in the city of West, Texas, kills 15 people and injures 160 others.
May 23 » A freeway bridge carrying Interstate 5 over the Skagit River collapses in Mount Vernon, Washington.
June 11 » Greece's public broadcaster ERT is shut down by then-prime minister Antonis Samaras. It reopened exactly two years later by then-prime minister Alexis Tsipras.
June 30 » Nineteen firefighters die controlling a wildfire in Yarnell, Arizona.
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