The temperature on March 21, 1920 was between 0.3 °C and 13.6 °C and averaged 7.0 °C. There was 0.9 hours of sunshine (7%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west. 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.
January 8 » The steel strike of 1919 ends in failure for the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers labor union.
April 28 » Azerbaijan is added to the Soviet Union.
May 2 » The first game of the Negro National League baseball is played in Indianapolis.
May 7 » Morecambe Football Club was founded during a meeting at the West View Hotel on the town's promenade.
June 15 » Following the 1920 Schleswig plebiscites, Northern Schleswig is transferred from Germany to Denmark.
September 1 » The Fountain of Time opens as a tribute to the 100 years of peace between the United States and Great Britain following the Treaty of Ghent.
Day of marriage May 28, 1952
The temperature on May 28, 1952 was between 4.4 °C and 14.5 °C and averaged 11.3 °C. There was 4.0 mm of rain during 5.7 hours. There was 6.4 hours of sunshine (39%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
September 1 » The Old Man and the Sea, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Ernest Hemingway, is first published.
September 15 » The United Nations cedes Eritrea to Ethiopia.
October 8 » The Harrow and Wealdstone rail crash kills 112 people.
October 20 » The Governor of Kenya declares a state of emergency and begins arresting hundreds of suspected leaders of the Mau Mau Uprising.
November 14 » The first regular UK Singles Chart published by the New Musical Express.
November 19 » Greek Field Marshal Alexander Papagos becomes the 152nd Prime Minister of Greece.
Day of death October 3, 2002
The temperature on October 3, 2002 was between 8.3 °C and 17.9 °C and averaged 14.5 °C. There was 1.4 mm of rain during 3.6 hours. There was 0.5 hours of sunshine (4%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west. 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.
March 1 » The Envisat environmental satellite successfully launches aboard an Ariane 5 rocket to reach an orbit of 800km (500mi) above the Earth, which was the then-largest payload at 10.5 m long and with a diameter of 4.57 m.
April 14 » Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez returns to office two days after being ousted and arrested by the country's military.
April 26 » Robert Steinhäuser kills 16 at Gutenberg-Gymnasium in Erfurt, Germany before dying of a self-inflicted gunshot.
July 28 » Pulkovo Aviation Enterprise Flight 9560 crashes after takeoff from Sheremetyevo International Airport in Moscow, Russia, killing 14 of the 16 people on board.
October 7 » The Space Shuttle Atlantis launches on STS-112 to continue assembly of the International Space Station.
November 21 » NATO invites Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia to become members.
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