The temperature on September 27, 1915 was between 6.9 °C and 16.6 °C and averaged 11.6 °C. There was 0.9 mm of rain. There was 0.5 hours of sunshine (4%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. 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 28 » An act of the U.S. Congress creates the United States Coast Guard as a branch of the United States Armed Forces.
March 26 » The Vancouver Millionaires win the 1915 Stanley Cup Finals, the first championship played between the Pacific Coast Hockey Association and the National Hockey Association.
May 22 » Three trains collide in the Quintinshill rail disaster near Gretna Green, Scotland, killing 227 people and injuring 246.
August 17 » A Category 4 hurricane hits Galveston, Texas with winds at 135 miles per hour (217km/h).
August 29 » US Navy salvage divers raise F-4, the first U.S. submarine sunk in an accident.
September 15 » The Empire Picture Theatre (now The New Empire Cinema), the oldest running cinema in mainland Australia, opens in Bowral, New South Wales.
Day of death December 17, 2007
The temperature on December 17, 2007 was between -2.5 °C and 1.1 °C and averaged -0.7 °C. There was 0.7 hours of sunshine (9%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Friday, July 7, 2006 to Thursday, February 22, 2007 the cabinet Balkenende III, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, February 22, 2007 to Thursday, October 14, 2010 the cabinet Balkenende IV, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
March 11 » Georgia claims Russian helicopters attacked the Kodori Valley in Abkhazia, an accusation that Russia categorically denies later.
June 26 » Pope Benedict XVI reinstates the traditional laws of papal election in which a successful candidate must receive two-thirds of the votes.
September 16 » Security guards working for Blackwater Worldwide shoot and kill 17 Iraqis in Nisour Square, Baghdad.
September 18 » Buddhist monks join anti-government protesters in Myanmar, starting what some call the Saffron Revolution.
October 15 » Seventeen activists in New Zealand are arrested in the country's first post-9/11 anti-terrorism raids.
December 20 » The Portrait of Suzanne Bloch (1904), by the Spanish artist Pablo Picasso, and O Lavrador de Café by Brazilian modernist painter Cândido Portinari, are stolen from the São Paulo Museum of Art.
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