The temperature on May 4, 1919 was between 4.2 °C and 18.0 °C and averaged 12.2 °C. There was 8.9 hours of sunshine (59%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east. Source: KNMI
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.
January 7 » Montenegrin guerrilla fighters rebel against the planned annexation of Montenegro by Serbia, but fail.
February 5 » Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and D. W. Griffith launch United Artists.
February 6 » The five-day Seattle General Strike begins, as more than 65,000 workers in the city of Seattle, Washington, walk off the job.
June 14 » John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown depart from St. John's, Newfoundland on the first nonstop transatlantic flight.
June 21 » Admiral Ludwig von Reuter scuttles the German fleet at Scapa Flow, Orkney. The nine sailors killed are the last casualties of World War I.
October 7 » KLM, the flag carrier of the Netherlands, is founded. It is the oldest airline still operating under its original name.
Day of marriage April 24, 1947
The temperature on April 24, 1947 was between 7.8 °C and 13.3 °C and averaged 10.1 °C. There was 9.7 hours of sunshine (67%). The average windspeed was 6 Bft (strong wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
April 9 » The Glazier–Higgins–Woodward tornadoes kill 181 and injure 970 in Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas.
May 22 » Cold War: The Truman Doctrine goes into effect, aiding Turkey and Greece.
August 7 » The Bombay Municipal Corporation formally takes over the Bombay Electric Supply and Transport (BEST).
September 9 » First case of a computer bug being found: A moth lodges in a relay of a Harvard Mark II computer at Harvard University.
September 15 » Typhoon Kathleen hit the Kantō region in Japan killing 1,077.
October 14 » Chuck Yeager becomes the first person to exceed the speed of sound.
Day of death March 17, 2009
The temperature on March 17, 2009 was between -0.1 °C and 11.9 °C and averaged 7.2 °C. There was 8.6 hours of sunshine (72%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, February 22, 2007 to Thursday, October 14, 2010 the cabinet Balkenende IV, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
March 12 » Financier Bernard Madoff pleads guilty to one of the largest frauds in Wall Street's history.
April 30 » Seven civilians and the perpetrator are killed and another ten injured at a Queen's Day parade in Apeldoorn, Netherlands in an attempted assassination on Queen Beatrix.
June 8 » Two American journalists are found guilty of illegally entering North Korea and sentenced to 12 years of penal labour.
June 21 » Greenland assumes self-rule.
October 28 » NASA successfully launches the Ares I-X mission, the only rocket launch for its short-lived Constellation program.
December 8 » Bombings in Baghdad, Iraq, kill 127 people and injure 448 others.
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