The temperature on November 28, 1915 was between -9.4 °C and -3.1 °C and averaged -6.3 °C. There was 2.1 hours of sunshine (26%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. 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 24 » World War I: British Grand Fleet battle cruisers under Vice-Admiral Sir David Beatty engage Rear-Admiral Franz von Hipper's battle cruisers in the Battle of Dogger Bank.
March 26 » The Vancouver Millionaires win the 1915 Stanley Cup Finals, the first championship played between the Pacific Coast Hockey Association and the National Hockey Association.
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 27 » HMS Princess Irene exploded and sank off Sheerness, Kent with the loss of 352 lives.
August 4 » World War I: The German 12th Army occupies Warsaw during the Gorlice–Tarnów Offensive and the Great Retreat of 1915.
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 June 2, 1949
The temperature on June 2, 1949 was between 9.1 °C and 18.0 °C and averaged 13.4 °C. There was 7.6 hours of sunshine (46%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest. Source: KNMI
From August 7, 1948 till March 15, 1951 the Netherlands had a cabinet Drees - Van Schaik with the prime ministers Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) and Mr. J.R.H. van Schaik (KVP).
January 3 » The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas, the central bank of the Philippines, is established.
February 14 » The Knesset (parliament of Israel) convenes for the first time.
April 5 » A fire in a hospital in Effingham, Illinois, kills 77 people and leads to nationwide fire code improvements in the United States.
June 8 » George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four is published.
July 27 » Initial flight of the de Havilland Comet, the first jet-powered airliner.
August 31 » The retreat of the Democratic Army of Greece in Albania after its defeat on Gramos mountain marks the end of the Greek Civil War.
Day of death August 30, 1994
The temperature on August 30, 1994 was between 11.4 °C and 20.5 °C and averaged 15.3 °C. There was 3.0 mm of rain during 3.6 hours. There was 3.1 hours of sunshine (22%). The 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, 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 17 » The 6.7 Mw Northridge earthquake shakes the Greater Los Angeles Area with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent), leaving 57 people dead and more than 8,700 injured.
May 5 » American teenager Michael P. Fay is caned in Singapore for theft and vandalism.
May 10 » Nelson Mandela is inaugurated as South Africa's first black president.
May 17 » Malawi holds its first multi-party elections.
September 30 » Ongar railway station, the furthest London Underground from central London, closes.
November 8 » Republican Revolution: On the night of the 1994 United States midterm elections, Republicans make historic electoral gains by securing massive majorities in both houses of congress (54 seats in the House and eight seats in the Senate, additionally). Thus bringing a close to four decades of Democratic domination.
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