The temperature on February 18, 1905 was between 0.5 °C and 8.7 °C and averaged 5.1 °C. There was 7.3 hours of sunshine (72%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from August 1, 1901 to August 16, 1905 the cabinet Kuijper, with Dr. A. Kuijper (AR) as prime minister.
In The Netherlands , there was from August 17, 1905 to February 11, 1908 the cabinet De Meester, with Mr. Th. de Meester (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
May 5 » The trial in the Stratton Brothers case begins in London, England; it marks the first time that fingerprint evidence is used to gain a conviction for murder.
June 30 » Albert Einstein sends the article On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies, in which he introduces special relativity, for publication in Annalen der Physik.
September 23 » Norway and Sweden sign the "Karlstad treaty", peacefully dissolving the Union between the two countries.
October 16 » The Partition of Bengal in India takes place.
November 25 » Prince Carl of Denmark arrives in Norway to become King Haakon VII of Norway.
November 28 » Irish nationalist Arthur Griffith founds Sinn Féin as a political party with the main aim of establishing a dual monarchy in Ireland.
Day of death January 28, 2000
The temperature on January 28, 2000 was between -0.4 °C and 5.9 °C and averaged 3.2 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain during 1.8 hours. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
February 4 » The World Summit Against Cancer for the New Millennium, Charter of Paris is signed by the President of France, Jacques Chirac and the Director General of UNESCO, Koichiro Matsuura, initiating World Cancer Day which is held on February 4 every year.
February 29 » Second Chechen War: Eighty-four Russian paratroopers are killed in a rebel attack on a guard post near Ulus Kert.
May 2 » President Bill Clinton announces that accurate GPS access would no longer be restricted to the United States military.
November 15 » Jharkhand officially becomes the 28th state of India, formed from eighteen districts of southern Bihar.
December 15 » The third reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant is shut down.
December 31 » The last day of the 20th Century and 2nd Millennium.
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