The temperature on August 29, 1915 was between 10.1 °C and 20.4 °C and averaged 14.1 °C. There was 5.5 mm of rain. There was 3.0 hours of sunshine (22%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. 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 19 » German strategic bombing during World War I: German zeppelins bomb the towns of Great Yarmouth and King's Lynn in the United Kingdom killing at least 20 people, in the first major aerial bombardment of a civilian target.
January 24 » World War I: British Grand Fleet battle cruisers under Vice-Admiral Sir David Beatty engage Rear-Admiral Franz von Hipper's battle cruisers in the Battle of Dogger Bank.
March 26 » The Vancouver Millionaires win the 1915 Stanley Cup Finals, the first championship played between the Pacific Coast Hockey Association and the National Hockey Association.
March 27 » Typhoid Mary, the first healthy carrier of disease ever identified in the United States is put in quarantine for the second time, where she would remain for the rest of her life.
August 4 » World War I: The German 12th Army occupies Warsaw during the Gorlice–Tarnów Offensive and the Great Retreat of 1915.
December 20 » World War I: The last Australian troops are evacuated from Gallipoli.
Day of marriage November 5, 1939
The temperature on November 5, 1939 was between 6.9 °C and 11.9 °C and averaged 8.8 °C. There was 2.0 mm of rain during 1.2 hours. There was 1.2 hours of sunshine (13%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from June 24, 1937 to July 25, 1939 the cabinet Colijn IV, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
In The Netherlands , there was from July 25, 1939 to August 10, 1939 the cabinet Colijn V, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
In The Netherlands , there was from August 10, 1939 to September 3, 1940 the cabinet De Geer II, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
February 10 » Spanish Civil War: The Nationalists conclude their conquest of Catalonia and seal the border with France.
March 15 » Germany occupies Czechoslovakia.
May 17 » The Columbia Lions and the Princeton Tigers play in the United States' first televised sporting event, a collegiate baseball game in New York City.
September 17 » World War II: German submarineU-29 sinks the British aircraft carrier HMSCourageous.
December 4 » World War II: HMSNelson is struck by a mine (laid by U-31) off the Scottish coast and is laid up for repairs until August 1940.
December 27 » Winter War: Finland holds off a Soviet attack in the Battle of Kelja.
Day of death August 6, 1995
The temperature on August 6, 1995 was between 16.5 °C and 26.6 °C and averaged 20.7 °C. There was 9.4 hours of sunshine (62%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, August 22, 1994 to Monday, August 3, 1998 the cabinet a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabinet-Kok_I" class="extern">Kok I, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
April 7 » First Chechen War: Russian paramilitary troops begin a massacre of civilians in Samashki, Chechnya.
October 26 » Mossad agents assassinate Islamic Jihad leader Fathi Shaqaqi in his hotel in Malta.
November 14 » A budget standoff between Democrats and Republicans in the U.S. Congress forces the federal government to temporarily close national parks and museums and to run most government offices with skeleton staffs.
November 22 » The 7.3 Mw Gulf of Aqaba earthquake shakes the Sinai Peninsula and Saudi Arabia region with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe), killing eight and injuring 30, and generating a non-destructive tsunami.
December 3 » Cameroon Airlines Flight 3701 crashes on approach to Douala International Airport in Douala, Cameroon, killing 71 of the 76 people on board.
December 7 » The Galileo spacecraft arrives at Jupiter, a little more than six years after it was launched by Space Shuttle Atlantis during Mission STS-34.
Day of burial August 16, 1995
The temperature on August 16, 1995 was between 11.8 °C and 25.7 °C and averaged 19.3 °C. There was 8.5 hours of sunshine (58%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, August 22, 1994 to Monday, August 3, 1998 the cabinet a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabinet-Kok_I" class="extern">Kok I, with W. Kok (PvdA) as prime minister.
January 1 » The World Trade Organization comes into being.
February 21 » Steve Fossett lands in Leader, Saskatchewan, Canada becoming the first person to make a solo flight across the Pacific Ocean in a balloon.
June 29 » Space Shuttle program: STS-71 Mission (Atlantis) docks with the Russian space station Mir for the first time.
July 21 » Third Taiwan Strait Crisis: The People's Liberation Army begins firing missiles into the waters north of Taiwan.
August 15 » In South Carolina, Shannon Faulkner becomes the first female cadet matriculated at The Citadel (she drops out less than a week later).
October 25 » A commuter train slams into a school bus in Fox River Grove, Illinois, killing seven students.
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