The temperature on March 19, 1914 was between 0.8 °C and 7.9 °C and averaged 4.4 °C. There was 2.0 mm of rain. There was 3.1 hours of sunshine (26%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. 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.
August 9 » Start of the Battle of Mulhouse, part of a French attempt to recover the province of Alsace and the first French offensive of World War I.
August 15 » World War I: The First Russian Army, led by Paul von Rennenkampf, enters East Prussia.
August 24 » World War I: The Battle of Cer ends as the first Allied victory in the war.
August 28 » World War I: German troops take the city of Namur in Belgium.
September 18 » The Irish Home Rule Act becomes law, but is delayed until after World War I.
October 5 » World War I: An aircraft successfully destroys another aircraft with gunfire.
Day of marriage December 11, 1935
The temperature on December 11, 1935 was between 1.8 °C and 4.9 °C and averaged 3.4 °C. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east. Source: KNMI
February 12 » USSMacon, one of the two largest helium-filled airships ever created, crashes into the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California and sinks.
February 26 » Robert Watson-Watt carries out a demonstration near Daventry which leads directly to the development of radar in the United Kingdom.
June 10 » Dr. Robert Smith takes his last drink, and Alcoholics Anonymous is founded in Akron, Ohio, United States, by him and Bill Wilson.
June 11 » Inventor Edwin Armstrong gives the first public demonstration of FM broadcasting in the United States at Alpine, New Jersey.
October 3 » Second Italo-Abyssinian War: Italy invades Ethiopia.
December 9 » Walter Liggett, American newspaper editor and muckraker, is killed in a gangland murder.
Day of death May 16, 1970
The temperature on May 16, 1970 was between 11.4 °C and 17.4 °C and averaged 14.0 °C. There was 3.2 hours of sunshine (20%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. Source: KNMI
February 18 » The Chicago Seven are found not guilty of conspiring to incite riots at the 1968 Democratic National Convention.
April 10 » Paul McCartney announces that he is leaving The Beatles for personal and professional reasons.
April 17 » Apollo program: The ill-fated Apollo 13 spacecraft returns to Earth safely.
May 11 » The 1970 Lubbock tornado kills 26 and causes $250million in damage.
September 19 » Michael Eavis hosts the first Glastonbury Festival.
November 17 » Luna programme: The Soviet Union lands Lunokhod 1 on Mare Imbrium (Sea of Rains) on the Moon. This is the first roving remote-controlled robot to land on another world and is released by the orbiting Luna 17 spacecraft.
Day of burial May 21, 1970
The temperature on May 21, 1970 was between 7.6 °C and 13.9 °C and averaged 10.3 °C. There was 1.6 mm of rain during 1.6 hours. There was 4.1 hours of sunshine (26%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
July 3 » Dan-Air Flight 1903 crashes into the Les Agudes mountain in the Montseny Massif near the village of Arbúcies in Catalonia, Spain, killing all 112 people aboard.
August 9 » LANSA Flight 502 crashes after takeoff from Alejandro Velasco Astete International Airport in Cusco, Peru, killing 99 of the 100 people on board, as well as two people on the ground.
September 2 » NASA announces the cancellation of two Apollo missions to the Moon, Apollo 15 (the designation is re-used by a later mission), and Apollo 19.
October 5 » The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is founded.
October 16 » Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau invokes the War Measures Act during the October Crisis.
December 23 » The Democratic Republic of the Congo officially becomes a one-party state.
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