The temperature on May 14, 1916 was between 4.7 °C and 20.6 °C and averaged 11.7 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain. There was 7.2 hours of sunshine (46%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-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 29 » World War I: Paris is first bombed by German zeppelins.
February 25 » In the Battle of Verdun, a German unit captures Fort Douaumont, keystone of the French defences, without a fight.
March 8 » World War I: A British force unsuccessfully attempts to relieve the siege of Kut (present-day Iraq) in the Battle of Dujaila.
June 24 » Mary Pickford becomes the first female film star to sign a million-dollar contract.
August 28 » World War I: Italy declares war on Germany.
November 7 » Boston Elevated Railway Company's streetcar No. 393 smashes through the warning gates of the open Summer Street drawbridge in Boston, Massachusetts, plunging into the frigid waters of Fort Point Channel, killing 46 people.
Day of marriage March 24, 1937
The temperature on March 24, 1937 was between 0.8 °C and 8.6 °C and averaged 4.1 °C. There was 1.3 hours of sunshine (10%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest. Source: KNMI
March 18 » Spanish Civil War: Spanish Republican forces defeat the Italians at the Battle of Guadalajara.
April 1 » Aden becomes a British crown colony.
June 14 » U.S. House of Representatives passes the Marihuana Tax Act.
June 30 » The world's first emergency telephone number, 999, is introduced in London.
July 22 » New Deal: The United States Senate votes down President Franklin D. Roosevelt's proposal to add more justices to the Supreme Court of the United States.
August 1 » Josip Broz Tito reads the resolution "Manifesto of constitutional congress of KPH" to the constitutive congress of KPH (Croatian Communist Party) in woods near Samobor.
Day of death April 15, 1999
The temperature on April 15, 1999 was between -1.1 °C and 9.3 °C and averaged 3.5 °C. There was 0.6 mm of rain during 1.2 hours. There was 5.5 hours of sunshine (40%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
August 10 » Los Angeles Jewish Community Center shooting.
August 17 » The 7.6 Mw İzmit earthquake shakes northwestern Turkey with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent), leaving 17,118–17,127 dead and 43,953–50,000 injured.
October 26 » Britain's House of Lords votes to end the right of hereditary peers to vote in Britain's upper chamber of Parliament.
November 9 » TAESA Flight 725 crashes after takeoff from Uruapan International Airport in Uruapan, Michoacán, Mexico, killing all 18 people on board.
December 6 » A&M Records, Inc. v. Napster, Inc.: The Recording Industry Association of America sues the peer-to-peer file-sharing service Napster, alleging copyright infringement.
December 31 » The U.S. government hands control of the Panama Canal (as well all the adjacent land to the canal known as the Panama Canal Zone) to Panama. This act complied with the signing of the 1977 Torrijos–Carter Treaties.
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