The temperature on April 16, 1921 was between -4.1 °C and 6.6 °C and averaged 1.1 °C. There was 2.5 mm of rain. There was 2.2 hours of sunshine (16%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from September 9, 1918 to September 18, 1922 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck I, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
March 20 » The Upper Silesia plebiscite was a plebiscite mandated by the Versailles Treaty to determine a section of the border between Weimar Germany and Poland.
June 15 » Bessie Coleman earns her pilot's license, becoming the first female pilot of African-American descent.
June 28 » Serbian King Alexander I proclaims the new constitution of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, known thereafter as the Vidovdan Constitution.
July 2 » World War I: U.S. President Warren G. Harding signs the Knox–Porter Resolution formally ending the war between the United States and Germany.
October 21 » President Warren G. Harding delivers the first speech by a sitting U.S. President against lynching in the deep South.
October 26 » The Chicago Theatre opens.
Day of marriage June 16, 1949
The temperature on June 16, 1949 was between 8.5 °C and 15.4 °C and averaged 11.3 °C. There was 3.3 hours of sunshine (20%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-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).
February 19 » Ezra Pound is awarded the first Bollingen Prize in poetry by the Bollingen Foundation and Yale University.
May 23 » Cold War: The Western occupying powers approve the Basic Law and establish a new German state, the Federal Republic of Germany.
August 10 » An amendment to the National Security Act of 1947 enhances the authority of the United States Secretary of Defense over the Army, Navy and Air Force, and replaces the National Military Establishment with the Department of Defense.
August 22 » The Queen Charlotte earthquake is Canada's strongest since the 1700 Cascadia earthquake.
August 29 » Soviet atomic bomb project: The Soviet Union tests its first atomic bomb, known as First Lightning or Joe 1, at Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan.
November 7 » The first oil was taken in Oil Rocks (Neft Daşları), oldest offshore oil platform.
Day of death October 26, 2002
The temperature on October 26, 2002 was between 6.6 °C and 12.8 °C and averaged 10.6 °C. There was 2.4 mm of rain during 3.2 hours. There was 2.6 hours of sunshine (26%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, August 3, 1998 to Monday, July 22, 2002 the cabinet Kok II, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, July 22, 2002 to Tuesday, May 27, 2003 the cabinet Balkenende I, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
January 28 » TAME Flight 120, a Boeing 727-100 crashes in the Andes mountains in southern Colombia, killing 94.
February 12 » An Iran Airtour Tupolev Tu-154 crashes in the mountains outside Khorramabad, Iran while descending for a landing at Khorramabad Airport, killing 119.
March 19 » Zimbabwe is suspended from the Commonwealth on charges of human rights abuses and of electoral fraud, following a turbulent presidential election.
April 2 » Israeli forces surround the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem into which armed Palestinians had retreated.
July 2 » Steve Fossett becomes the first person to fly solo around the world nonstop in a balloon.
November 21 » NATO invites Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia to become members.
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