The temperature on June 26, 1915 was between 10.5 °C and 20.4 °C and averaged 16.4 °C. There was 1.0 mm of rain. There was 6.1 hours of sunshine (36%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. 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 17 » Russia defeats Ottoman Turkey in the Battle of Sarikamish during the Caucasus Campaign of World War I.
January 19 » Georges Claude patents the neon discharge tube for use in advertising.
March 20 » Albert Einstein publishes his general theory of relativity.
May 24 » World War I: Italy declares war on Austria-Hungary, joining the conflict on the side of the Allies.
July 7 » The First Battle of the Isonzo comes to an end.
August 27 » Attempted assassination of Bishop Patrick Heffron, bishop of the Diocese of Winona by Rev. Louis M. Lesches.
Day of marriage September 29, 1937
The temperature on September 29, 1937 was between 5.5 °C and 17.2 °C and averaged 11.7 °C. There was 6.7 hours of sunshine (57%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. Source: KNMI
January 23 » The trial of the anti-Soviet Trotskyist center sees seventeen mid-level Communists accused of sympathizing with Leon Trotsky and plotting to overthrow Joseph Stalin's regime.
April 26 » Spanish Civil War: Guernica, Spain, is bombed by German Luftwaffe.
May 30 » Memorial Day massacre: Chicago police shoot and kill ten labor demonstrators.
August 14 » The beginning of air-to-air combat of the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II in general, when six Japanese bombers are shot down by Chinese fighters while raiding Chinese air bases.
September 22 » Spanish Civil War: Peña Blanca is taken, ending the Battle of El Mazuco.
December 13 » Second Sino-Japanese War: Battle of Nanking: The city of Nanjing, defended by the National Revolutionary Army under the command of General Tang Shengzhi, falls to the Japanese. This is followed by the Nanking Massacre, in which Japanese troops rape and slaughter hundreds of thousands of civilians.
Day of death June 22, 1969
The temperature on June 22, 1969 was between 8.6 °C and 20.1 °C and averaged 14.9 °C. There was 7.5 hours of sunshine (45%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
March 10 » In Memphis, Tennessee, James Earl Ray pleads guilty to assassinating Martin Luther King, Jr. He later unsuccessfully attempts to recant.
June 22 » The Cuyahoga River catches fire in Cleveland, Ohio, drawing national attention to water pollution, and spurring the passing of the Clean Water Act and the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency.
August 7 » Richard Nixon appoints Luis R. Bruce, a Mohawk-Oglala Sioux and co-founder of the National Congress of American Indians, as the new commissioner of the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
October 8 » The opening rally of the Days of Rage occurs, organized by the Weather Underground in Chicago.
October 9 » In Chicago, the National Guard is called in as demonstrations continue over the trial of the "Chicago Eight".
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