The temperature on May 3, 1919 was between 4.7 °C and 13.7 °C and averaged 8.9 °C. There was 10.0 hours of sunshine (67%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) 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 7 » Montenegrin guerrilla fighters rebel against the planned annexation of Montenegro by Serbia, but fail.
January 18 » World War I: The Paris Peace Conference opens in Versailles, France.
April 13 » Jallianwala Bagh massacre: British Indian Army troops lead by Brigadier-General Reginald Dyer killed approx 379-1000 unarmed demonstrators including men and women in Amritsar, India; and approximately 1,500 injured.
July 21 » The dirigible Wingfoot Air Express crashes into the Illinois Trust and Savings Building in Chicago, killing 12 people.
September 4 » Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, who founded the Republic of Turkey, gathers a congress in Sivas to make decisions as to the future of Anatolia and Thrace.
September 11 » United States Marine Corps invades Honduras.
Day of marriage May 9, 1944
The temperature on May 9, 1944 was between -0.6 °C and 16.2 °C and averaged 8.8 °C. There was 14.0 hours of sunshine (91%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. 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.
January 29 » In Bologna, Italy, the Anatomical theatre of the Archiginnasio is completely destroyed in an air-raid, during the Second World War.
June 11 » USSMissouri, the last battleship built by the United States Navy and future site of the signing of the Japanese Instrument of Surrender, is commissioned.
August 15 » World War II: Operation Dragoon: Allied forces land in southern France.
September 6 » World War II: Soviet forces capture the city of Tartu, Estonia.
October 25 » Second World War: The final attempt of the Imperial Japanese Navy to win the war climaxes at the Battle of Leyte Gulf.
November 19 » World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt announces the 6th War Loan Drive, aimed at selling US$14billion in war bonds to help pay for the war effort.
Day of death June 6, 2000
The temperature on June 6, 2000 was between 10.1 °C and 16.3 °C and averaged 12.8 °C. There was 18.3 mm of rain during 1.1 hours. There was 1.9 hours of sunshine (11%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
April 3 » United States v. Microsoft Corp.: Microsoft is ruled to have violated United States antitrust law by keeping "an oppressive thumb" on its competitors.
June 13 » President Kim Dae-jung of South Korea meets Kim Jong-il, leader of North Korea, for the beginning of the first ever inter-Korea summit, in the northern capital of Pyongyang.
September 20 » The United Kingdom's MI6 Secret Intelligence Service building is attacked by individuals using a Russian-built RPG-22 anti-tank missile.
November 1 » The Republic of Serbia and Montenegro joins the United Nations.
November 15 » A chartered Antonov An-24 crashes after takeoff from Luanda, Angola, killing more than 40 people.
November 15 » Jharkhand officially becomes the 28th state of India, formed from eighteen districts of southern Bihar.
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