The temperature on September 19, 1915 was between 4.9 °C and 17.3 °C and averaged 11.2 °C. There was 9.7 hours of sunshine (78%). 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.
January 21 » Kiwanis International is founded in Detroit.
January 28 » An act of the U.S. Congress creates the United States Coast Guard as a branch of the United States Armed Forces.
May 1 » The RMSLusitania departs from New York City on her 202nd, and final, crossing of the North Atlantic. Six days later, the ship is torpedoed off the coast of Ireland with the loss of 1,198 lives.
May 23 » World War I: Italy joins the Allies, fulfilling its part of the Treaty of London.
July 28 » The United States begins a 19-year occupation of Haiti.
August 15 » A story in New York World newspaper reveals that the Imperial German government had purchased excess phenol from Thomas Edison that could be used to make explosives for the war effort and diverted it to Bayer for aspirin production.
Day of marriage May 12, 1938
The temperature on May 12, 1938 was between 0.4 °C and 20.8 °C and averaged 12.6 °C. There was 12.9 hours of sunshine (83%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. Source: KNMI
February 4 » Adolf Hitler appoints himself as head of the Armed Forces High Command.
April 25 » U.S. Supreme Court delivers its opinion in Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins and overturns a century of federal common law.
July 31 » Archaeologists discover engraved gold and silver plates from King Darius the Great in Persepolis.
September 21 » The Great Hurricane of 1938 makes landfall on Long Island in New York. The death toll is estimated at 500–700 people.
September 27 » The ocean liner Queen Elizabeth is launched in Glasgow.
October 5 » In Nazi Germany, Jews' passports are invalidated.
Day of death June 19, 1994
The temperature on June 19, 1994 was between 12.7 °C and 18.4 °C and averaged 16.0 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 2.8 hours of sunshine (17%). The partly or 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 Tuesday, November 7, 1989 to Monday, August 22, 1994 the cabinet Lubbers III, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
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.
January 11 » The Irish Government announces the end of a 15-year broadcasting ban on the IRA and its political arm Sinn Féin.
February 5 » Byron De La Beckwith is convicted of the 1963 murder of civil rights leader Medgar Evers.
May 5 » American teenager Michael P. Fay is caned in Singapore for theft and vandalism.
June 1 » Republic of South Africa becomes a Commonwealth republic.
October 14 » Yasser Arafat, Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres receive the Nobel Peace Prize for their role in the establishment of the Oslo Accords and the framing of future Palestinian self government.
December 10 » Rwandan genocide: Maurice Baril, military advisor to the U.N. Secretary-General and head of the Military Division of the Department of Peacekeeping Operations, recommends that UNAMIR stand down.
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