The temperature on April 29, 1923 was between 4.0 °C and 10.6 °C and averaged 7.2 °C. There was 4.7 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from September 19, 1922 to August 4, 1925 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck II, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
April 28 » Wembley Stadium is opened, named initially as the Empire Stadium.
June 27 » Capt. Lowell H. Smith and Lt. John P. Richter perform the first ever aerial refueling in a DH.4B biplane.
September 1 » The Great Kantō earthquake devastates Tokyo and Yokohama, killing about 105,000 people.
September 4 » Maiden flight of the first U.S. airship, the USSShenandoah.
October 31 » The first of 160 consecutive days of 100° Fahrenheit at Marble Bar, Western Australia.
December 21 » United Kingdom and Nepal formally signed an agreement of friendship, called the Nepal–Britain Treaty of 1923, which superseded the Treaty of Sugauli signed in 1816.
Day of marriage May 10, 1945
The temperature on May 10, 1945 was between 13.4 °C and 25.4 °C and averaged 19.2 °C. There was 8.4 hours of sunshine (55%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from July 27, 1941 to February 23, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy II, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
In The Netherlands , there was from February 23, 1945 to June 24, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy III, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
From June 24, 1945 till July 3, 1946 the Netherlands had a cabinet Schermerhorn - Drees with the prime ministers Prof. ir. W. Schermerhorn (VDB) and W. Drees (PvdA).
January 1 » World War II: In retaliation for the Malmedy massacre, U.S. troops kill 60 German POWs at Chenogne.
March 29 » World War II: Last day of V-1 flying bomb attacks on England.
April 17 » World War II: Montese, Italy, is liberated from Nazi forces.
April 22 » World War II: Prisoners at the Jasenovac concentration camp revolt. Five hundred twenty are killed and around eighty escape.
August 14 » Japan accepts the Allied terms of surrender in World War II and the Emperor records the Imperial Rescript on Surrender (August 15 in Japan Standard Time).
August 14 » The Viet Minh launches August Revolution amid the political confusion and power vacuum engulfing Vietnam.
Day of death October 25, 2014
The temperature on October 25, 2014 was between 9.6 °C and 15.3 °C and averaged 12.6 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 0.3 hours. There was 0.4 hours of sunshine (4%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, November 5, 2012 to Thursday, October 26, 2017 the cabinet Rutte II, with Mark Rutte (VVD) as prime minister.
January 9 » An explosion at a Mitsubishi Materials chemical plant in Yokkaichi, Japan, kills at least five people and injures 17 others.
March 8 » Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, carrying a total of 239 people, disappears en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing.
April 22 » More than 60 people are killed and 80 are seriously injured in a train crash in the Democratic Republic of the Congo's Katanga Province.
July 17 » Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, a Boeing 777, crashes near the border of Ukraine and Russia after being shot down. All 298 people on board are killed.
July 23 » TransAsia Airways Flight 222 crashes in Xixi village near Huxi, Penghu, during approach to Phengu Airport. 48 of the 58 people on board are killed and five more people on the ground are injured.
December 28 » Indonesia AirAsia Flight 8501 crashes into the Karimata Strait en route from Surabaya to Singapore, killing all 162 people aboard.
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