The temperature on June 11, 1915 was between 11.4 °C and 18.7 °C and averaged 15.1 °C. There was 4.7 mm of rain. There was 1.2 hours of sunshine (7%). The average windspeed was 4 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 28 » An act of the U.S. Congress creates the United States Coast Guard as a branch of the United States Armed Forces.
May 24 » World War I: Italy declares war on Austria-Hungary, joining the conflict on the side of the Allies.
May 27 » HMS Princess Irene exploded and sank off Sheerness, Kent with the loss of 352 lives.
July 5 » The Liberty Bell leaves Philadelphia by special train on its way to the Panama–Pacific International Exposition. This is the last trip outside Philadelphia that the custodians of the bell intend to permit.
July 24 » The passenger ship SSEastland capsizes while tied to a dock in the Chicago River. A total of 844 passengers and crew are killed in the largest loss of life disaster from a single shipwreck on the Great Lakes.
November 25 » Albert Einstein presents the field equations of general relativity to the Prussian Academy of Sciences.
Day of marriage July 13, 1939
The temperature on July 13, 1939 was between 6.5 °C and 22.9 °C and averaged 15.4 °C. There was 10.5 hours of sunshine (64%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from June 24, 1937 to July 25, 1939 the cabinet Colijn IV, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
In The Netherlands , there was from July 25, 1939 to August 10, 1939 the cabinet Colijn V, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
In The Netherlands , there was from August 10, 1939 to September 3, 1940 the cabinet De Geer II, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
February 28 » The erroneous word "dord" is discovered in the Webster's New International Dictionary, Second Edition, prompting an investigation.
March 17 » Second Sino-Japanese War: Battle of Nanchang between the Kuomintang and Japan begins.
April 20 » Adolf Hitler's 50th birthday's celebrations in Germany
September 1 » World War II: Nazi Germany and Slovakia invade Poland, beginning the European phase of World War II.
September 28 » World War II: Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union agree on a division of Poland.
December 24 » World War II: Pope Pius XII makes a Christmas Eve appeal for peace.
Day of death November 3, 2010
The temperature on November 3, 2010 was between 10.7 °C and 14.7 °C and averaged 12.8 °C. There was 5.8 mm of rain during 8.0 hours. There was 3.2 hours of sunshine (34%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. 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.
In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, October 14, 2010 to Monday, November 5, 2012 the cabinet Rutte I, with Mark Rutte (VVD) as prime minister.
January 8 » Gunmen from an offshoot of the Front for the Liberation of the Enclave of Cabinda attack a bus carrying the Togo national football team on its way to the 2010 Africa Cup of Nations, killing three people and injuring another nine.
February 13 » A bomb explodes in the city of Pune, Maharashtra, India, killing 17 and injuring 60 more.
February 18 » WikiLeaks publishes the first of hundreds of thousands of classified documents disclosed by the soldier now known as Chelsea Manning.
April 21 » The controversial Kharkiv Pact (Russian Ukrainian Naval Base for Gas Treaty) is signed in Kharkiv, Ukraine, by Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev; it was unilaterally terminated by Russia on March 31, 2014.
June 24 » At Wimbledon, John Isner of the United States defeats Nicolas Mahut of France, in the longest match in professional tennis history.
October 10 » The Netherlands Antilles are dissolved as a country.
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