The temperature on December 26, 1919 was between -0.9 °C and 2.6 °C and averaged 1.0 °C. There was 2.7 mm of rain. There was 1.1 hours of sunshine (14%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-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.
February 6 » The five-day Seattle General Strike begins, as more than 65,000 workers in the city of Seattle, Washington, walk off the job.
February 21 » German socialist Kurt Eisner is assassinated. His death results in the establishment of the Bavarian Soviet Republic and parliament and government fleeing Munich, Germany.
May 4 » May Fourth Movement: Student demonstrations take place in Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China, protesting the Treaty of Versailles, which transferred Chinese territory to Japan.
June 28 » The Treaty of Versailles is signed, ending the state of war between Germany and the Allies of World War I.
December 23 » Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act 1919 becomes law in the United Kingdom.
December 26 » Babe Ruth of the Boston Red Sox is sold to the New York Yankees by owner Harry Frazee, allegedly establishing the Curse of the Bambino superstition.
Day of marriage June 23, 1945
The temperature on June 23, 1945 was between 12.5 °C and 27.5 °C and averaged 19.8 °C. There was 11.1 hours of sunshine (66%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from July 27, 1941 to February 23, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy II, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
In The Netherlands , there was from February 23, 1945 to June 24, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy III, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
From June 24, 1945 till July 3, 1946 the Netherlands had a cabinet Schermerhorn - Drees with the prime ministers Prof. ir. W. Schermerhorn (VDB) and W. Drees (PvdA).
January 9 » World War II: The Sixth United States Army begins the invasion of Lingayen Gulf.
January 17 » World War II: The Vistula–Oder Offensive forces German troops out of Warsaw.
January 31 » World War II: The end of fighting in the Battle of Hill 170 during the Burma Campaign, in which the British 3 Commando Brigade repulsed a Japanese counterattack on their positions and precipitated a general retirement from the Arakan Peninsula.
April 4 » World War II: Soviet troops liberate Hungary from German occupation and occupy the country themselves.
June 10 » Australian Imperial Forces land in Brunei Bay to liberate Brunei.
August 30 » The Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces, General Douglas MacArthur lands at Atsugi Air Force Base.
Day of death August 28, 1959
The temperature on August 28, 1959 was between 7.2 °C and 21.9 °C and averaged 14.8 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain during 0.8 hours. There was 4.8 hours of sunshine (35%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest. Source: KNMI
January 2 » Luna 1, the first spacecraft to reach the vicinity of the Moon and to orbit the Sun, is launched by the Soviet Union.
February 11 » The Federation of Arab Emirates of the South is created as a protectorate of the United Kingdom.
March 30 » Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, flees Tibet for India.
June 23 » Convicted Manhattan Project spy Klaus Fuchs is released after only nine years in prison and allowed to emigrate to Dresden, East Germany where he resumes a scientific career.
August 17 » Quake Lake is formed by the magnitude 7.5 1959 Hebgen Lake earthquake near Hebgen Lake in Montana.
August 31 » A parcel bomb sent by Ngô Đình Nhu, younger brother and chief adviser of South Vietnamese President Ngô Đình Diệm, fails to kill King Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia.
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