The temperature on November 11, 1915 was between 3.8 °C and 8.7 °C and averaged 6.2 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain. There was 6.2 hours of sunshine (68%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-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.
January 19 » Georges Claude patents the neon discharge tube for use in advertising.
July 1 » Leutnant Kurt Wintgens of the then-named German Deutsches Heer's Fliegertruppe army air service achieves the first known aerial victory with a synchronized machine-gun armed fighter plane, the Fokker M.5K/MG Eindecker.
August 27 » Attempted assassination of Bishop Patrick Heffron, bishop of the Diocese of Winona by Rev. Louis M. Lesches.
September 5 » The pacifist Zimmerwald Conference begins.
October 13 » First World War: The Battle of the Hohenzollern Redoubt marks the end of the Battle of Loos.
November 25 » Albert Einstein presents the field equations of general relativity to the Prussian Academy of Sciences.
Day of marriage April 22, 1937
The temperature on April 22, 1937 was between 4.1 °C and 11.0 °C and averaged 8.6 °C. There was 2.3 mm of rain during 3.4 hours. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
April 12 » Sir Frank Whittle ground-tests the first jet engine designed to power an aircraft, at Rugby, England.
May 12 » The Duke and Duchess of York are crowned as King George VI and Queen Elizabeth of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in Westminster Abbey.
June 30 » The world's first emergency telephone number, 999, is introduced in London.
July 7 » The Marco Polo Bridge Incident provides the Imperial Japanese Army with a pretext for starting the Second Sino-Japanese War.
December 9 » Second Sino-Japanese War: Battle of Nanking: Japanese troops under the command of Lt. Gen. Asaka Yasuhiko launch an assault on the Chinese city of Nanjing (Nanking).
December 22 » The Lincoln Tunnel opens to traffic in New York City.
Day of death August 15, 2004
The temperature on August 15, 2004 was between 13.1 °C and 25.3 °C and averaged 19.4 °C. There was 2.6 mm of rain during 1.1 hours. There was 6.6 hours of sunshine (45%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, May 27, 2003 to Friday, July 7, 2006 the cabinet Balkenende II, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
February 13 » The Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics announces the discovery of the universe's largest known diamond, white dwarf star BPM 37093. Astronomers named this star "Lucy" after The Beatles' song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds".
March 27 » HMSScylla, a decommissioned Leander-class frigate, is sunk as an artificial reef off Cornwall, the first of its kind in Europe.
June 21 » SpaceShipOne becomes the first privately funded spaceplane to achieve spaceflight.
August 1 » A supermarket fire kills 396 people and injures 500 others in Asunción, Paraguay.
October 14 » MK Airlines Flight 1602 crashes during takeoff from Halifax Stanfield International Airport, killing all seven people on board.
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