The temperature on November 19, 1908 was between 1.7 °C and 8.9 °C and averaged 6.1 °C. There was 8.1 mm of rain. There was 2.0 hours of sunshine (23%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from August 17, 1905 to February 11, 1908 the cabinet De Meester, with Mr. Th. de Meester (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
In The Netherlands , there was from February 12, 1908 to August 29, 1913 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. Th. Heemskerk (AR) as prime minister.
January 28 » Members of the Portuguese Republican Party fail in their attempted coup d'état against the administrative dictatorship of Prime Minister João Franco.
June 18 » The University of the Philippines is established.
August 8 » Wilbur Wright makes his first flight at a racecourse at Le Mans, France. It is the Wright Brothers' first public flight.
October 1 » Ford Model T automobiles are offered for sale at a price of US$825.
October 6 » The Bosnian crisis erupts when Austria-Hungary formally annexes Bosnia and Herzegovina.
October 13 » Margaret Travers Symons bursts into the UK parliament and became the first woman to speak there.
Day of marriage November 21, 1931
The temperature on November 21, 1931 was between -0.4 °C and 8.4 °C and averaged 4.1 °C. There was 1.2 hours of sunshine (14%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from August 10, 1929 to May 26, 1933 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck III, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
March 23 » Bhagat Singh, Shivaram Rajguru and Sukhdev Thapar are hanged for the killing of a deputy superintendent of police during the Indian independence movement.
March 26 » Swissair is founded as the national airline of Switzerland.
May 14 » Five unarmed civilians are killed in the Ådalen shootings, as the Swedish military is called in to deal with protesting workers.
August 24 » France and the Soviet Union sign a neutrality pact.
September 18 » The Mukden Incident gives Japan a pretext to invade and occupy Manchuria.
December 9 » The Constituent Cortes approves a constitution which establishes the Second Spanish Republic.
Day of death January 10, 1999
The temperature on January 10, 1999 was between -4.3 °C and 2.0 °C and averaged -1.3 °C. There was 6.3 hours of sunshine (78%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
February 12 » United States President Bill Clinton is acquitted by the United States Senate in his impeachment trial.
March 29 » The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above the 10,000 mark (10,006.78) for the first time, during the height of the dot-com bubble.
April 9 » Kosovo War: The Battle of Košare begins.
June 9 » Kosovo War: The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and NATO sign a peace treaty.
July 23 » ANA Flight 61 is hijacked in Tokyo, Japan by Yuji Nishizawa.
December 14 » Torrential rains cause flash floods in Vargas, Venezuela, resulting in tens of thousands of deaths, the destruction of thousands of homes, and the complete collapse of the state's infrastructure.
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