The temperature on August 8, 1908 was between 7.3 °C and 21.5 °C and averaged 15.9 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain. There was 9.6 hours of sunshine (63%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from August 17, 1905 to February 11, 1908 the cabinet De Meester, with Mr. Th. de Meester (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
In The Netherlands , there was from February 12, 1908 to August 29, 1913 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. Th. Heemskerk (AR) as prime minister.
January 28 » Members of the Portuguese Republican Party fail in their attempted coup d'état against the administrative dictatorship of Prime Minister João Franco.
January 30 » Indian pacifist and leader Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi is released from prison by Jan C. Smuts after being tried and sentenced to two months in jail earlier in the month.
April 11 » SMSBlücher, the last armored cruiser to be built by the Imperial German Navy, is launched.
April 16 » Natural Bridges National Monument is established in Utah.
May 10 » Mother's Day is observed for the first time in the United States, in Grafton, West Virginia.
November 22 » The Congress of Manastir establishes the Albanian alphabet.
Day of marriage October 4, 1945
The temperature on October 4, 1945 was between 4.5 °C and 14.6 °C and averaged 10.3 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain during 0.8 hours. There was 2.2 hours of sunshine (19%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-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.
In The Netherlands , there was from February 23, 1945 to June 24, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy III, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
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).
January 25 » World War II: The Battle of the Bulge ends.
January 26 » World War II: Audie Murphy displays valor and bravery in action for which he will later be awarded the Medal of Honor.
April 9 » World War II: The German heavy cruiser Admiral Scheer is sunk by the Royal Air Force.
August 11 » Poles in Kraków engage in a pogrom against Jews in the city, killing one and wounding five.
August 15 » Jewel Voice Broadcast by the Emperor Showa following effective surrender of Japan in the World War II, Korea gains Independence from the Empire of Japan.
December 4 » By a vote of 65–7, the United States Senate approves United States participation in the United Nations. (The UN had been established on October 24, 1945.)
Day of death July 31, 1997
The temperature on July 31, 1997 was between 13.8 °C and 18.6 °C and averaged 16.1 °C. There was 0.9 mm of rain during 1.1 hours. There was 1.1 hours of sunshine (7%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. 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.
February 28 » GRB 970228, a highly luminous flash of gamma rays, strikes the Earth for 80 seconds, providing early evidence that gamma-ray bursts occur well beyond the Milky Way.
April 29 » The Chemical Weapons Convention of 1993 enters into force, outlawing the production, stockpiling and use of chemical weapons by its signatories.
June 16 » Fifty people are killed in the Daïat Labguer (M'sila) massacre in Algeria.
October 15 » The Cassini probe launches from Cape Canaveral on its way to Saturn.
November 3 » The United States imposes economic sanctions against Sudan in response to its human rights abuses of its own citizens and its material and political assistance to Islamic extremist groups across the Middle East and Eastern Africa.
December 22 » Hussein Farrah Aidid relinquishes the disputed title of President of Somalia by signing the Cairo Declaration, in Cairo, Egypt. It is the first major step towards reconciliation in Somalia since 1991.
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