The temperature on May 16, 1914 was between 5.2 °C and 19.8 °C and averaged 13.7 °C. There was 13.7 hours of sunshine (87%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from August 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
January 5 » The Ford Motor Company announces an eight-hour workday and minimum daily wage of $5 in salary plus bonuses.
August 25 » World War I: The library of the Catholic University of Leuven is deliberately destroyed by the German Army. Hundreds of thousands of irreplaceable volumes and Gothic and Renaissance manuscripts are lost.
August 29 » World War I: Start of the Battle of St. Quentin in which the French Fifth Army counter-attacked the invading Germans at Saint-Quentin, Aisne.
September 8 » World War I: Private Thomas Highgate becomes the first British soldier to be executed for desertion during the war.
October 19 » First World War: The First Battle of Ypres begins.
December 15 » A gas explosion at Mitsubishi Hōjō coal mine, in Kyushu, Japan, kills 687.
Day of marriage November 27, 1944
The temperature on November 27, 1944 was between 1.9 °C and 5.4 °C and averaged 4.2 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain during 1.1 hours. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-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.
February 14 » World War II: In the Action of 14 February 1944, a Royal Navy submarine sinks a German-controlled Italian submarine in the Strait of Malacca.
February 23 » The Soviet Union begins the forced deportation of the Chechen and Ingush people from the North Caucasus to Central Asia.
August 9 » The United States Forest Service and the Wartime Advertising Council release posters featuring Smokey Bear for the first time.
August 16 » First flight of a jet with forward-swept wings, the Junkers Ju 287.
November 3 » World War II: Two supreme commanders of the Slovak National Uprising, Generals Ján Golian and Rudolf Viest are captured, tortured and later executed by German forces.
December 31 » World War II: Hungary declares war on Nazi Germany.
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