The temperature on October 5, 1916 was between 13.4 °C and 17.4 °C and averaged 14.5 °C. There was 3.7 mm of rain. There was 1.8 hours of sunshine (16%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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.
May 6 » Vietnamese Emperor Duy Tân is captured while calling upon the people to rise up against the French, and is later deposed and exiled to Réunion island.
June 29 » British diplomat turned Irish nationalist Roger Casement is sentenced to death for his part in the Easter Rising.
August 2 » World War I: Austrian sabotage causes the sinking of the Italian battleship Leonardo da Vinci in Taranto.
August 28 » World War I: Italy declares war on Germany.
November 7 » Jeannette Rankin is the first woman elected to the United States Congress.
December 29 » A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, the first novel by James Joyce, was first published as a book by an American publishing house B. W. Huebschis after it had been serialized in The Egoist (1914–15).
Day of marriage May 23, 1946
The temperature on May 23, 1946 was between 10.4 °C and 17.5 °C and averaged 13.8 °C. There was 0.6 mm of rain during 0.3 hours. There was 1.4 hours of sunshine (9%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north. Source: KNMI
From June 24, 1945 till July 3, 1946 the Netherlands had a cabinet Schermerhorn - Drees with the prime ministers Prof. ir. W. Schermerhorn (VDB) and W. Drees (PvdA).
In The Netherlands , there was from July 3, 1946 to August 7, 1948 the cabinet Beel I, with Dr. L.J.M. Beel (KVP) as prime minister.
January 22 » Creation of the Central Intelligence Group, forerunner of the Central Intelligence Agency.
February 15 » ENIAC, the first electronic general-purpose computer, is formally dedicated at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.
February 18 » Sailors of the Royal Indian Navy mutiny in Bombay harbour, from where the action spreads throughout the Provinces of British India, involving 78 ships, twenty shore establishments and 20,000 sailors
March 9 » Bolton Wanderers stadium disaster at Burnden Park, Bolton, England, kills 33 and injures hundreds more.
April 3 » Japanese Lt. General Masaharu Homma is executed in the Philippines for leading the Bataan Death March.
October 16 » Nuremberg trials: Ten defendants found guilty by the International Military Tribunal are executed by hanging.
Day of death April 28, 1997
The temperature on April 28, 1997 was between 8.6 °C and 15.6 °C and averaged 11.4 °C. There was 12.6 mm of rain during 9.4 hours. There was 0.6 hours of sunshine (4%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, August 22, 1994 to Monday, August 3, 1998 the cabinet a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabinet-Kok_I" class="extern">Kok I, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
April 29 » The Chemical Weapons Convention of 1993 enters into force, outlawing the production, stockpiling and use of chemical weapons by its signatories.
July 20 » The fully restored USSConstitution (a.k.a. Old Ironsides) celebrates its 200th birthday by setting sail for the first time in 116 years.
August 26 » Beni Ali massacre occurs in Algeria, leaving 60 to 100 people dead.
September 11 » After a nationwide referendum, Scotland votes to establish a devolved parliament within the United Kingdom.
October 4 » The second largest cash robbery in U.S. history occurs in North Carolina
December 30 » In the worst incident in Algeria's insurgency, the Wilaya of Relizane massacres, 400 people from four villages are killed.
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