The temperature on May 24, 1916 was between 4.6 °C and 19.2 °C and averaged 13.8 °C. There was 1.1 mm of rain. There was 8.5 hours of sunshine (53%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east. 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 10 » World War I: In the Erzurum Offensive, Russia defeats the Ottoman Empire.
May 16 » The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the French Third Republic sign the secret wartime Sykes-Picot Agreement partitioning former Ottoman territories such as Iraq and Syria.
May 31 » World War I: Battle of Jutland: The British Grand Fleet engages the High Seas Fleet in the largest naval battle of the war, which proves indecisive.
June 10 » The Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Empire was declared by Hussein bin Ali, Sharif of Mecca.
October 7 » Georgia Tech defeats Cumberland University 222–0 in the most lopsided college football game in American history.
December 18 » World War I: The Battle of Verdun ends when German forces under Chief of staff Erich von Falkenhayn are defeated by the French, and suffer 337,000 casualties.
Day of death September 24, 1992
The temperature on September 24, 1992 was between 9.3 °C and 17.5 °C and averaged 14.0 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 1.1 hours of sunshine (9%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, November 7, 1989 to Monday, August 22, 1994 the cabinet Lubbers III, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
January 26 » Boris Yeltsin announces that Russia will stop targeting United States cities with nuclear weapons.
March 22 » USAir Flight 405 crashes shortly after takeoff from New York City's LaGuardia Airport, leading to a number of studies into the effect that ice has on aircraft.
July 19 » A car bomb kills Judge Paolo Borsellino and five members of his escort.
November 27 » For the second time in a year, military forces try to overthrow president Carlos Andrés Pérez in Venezuela.
December 21 » A Dutch DC-10, flight Martinair MP 495, crashes at Faro Airport, killing 56.
December 31 » Czechoslovakia is peacefully dissolved in what is dubbed by media as the Velvet Divorce, resulting in the creation of the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic.
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