The temperature on October 16, 1915 was between 3.4 °C and 15.6 °C and averaged 10.0 °C. There was 2.3 hours of sunshine (22%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. 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 22 » Over 600 people are killed in Guadalajara, Mexico, when a train plunges off the tracks into a deep canyon.
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.
April 5 » Boxing challenger Jess Willard knocks out Jack Johnson in Havana, Cuba to become the Heavyweight Champion of the World.
June 29 » The North Saskatchewan River flood of 1915 is the worst flood in Edmonton history.
July 1 » Leutnant Kurt Wintgens of the then-named German Deutsches Heer's Fliegertruppe army air service achieves the first known aerial victory with a synchronized machine-gun armed fighter plane, the Fokker M.5K/MG Eindecker.
July 7 » Colombo Town Guard officer Henry Pedris is executed in British Ceylon for allegedly inciting persecution of Muslims.
Day of death November 14, 1942
The temperature on November 14, 1942 was between -0.5 °C and 4.4 °C and averaged 2.4 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south. 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.
January 30 » World War II: Battle of Ambon. Japanese forces invade the island of Ambon in the Dutch East Indies. Some 300 captured Allied troops are massacred at Laha airfield. Three-fourths of remaining POWs will not have survived by the end of the war, including 250 men who will be shipped to Hainan Island in South China Sea and never returned.
February 27 » World War II: During the Battle of the Java Sea, an Allied strike force is defeated by a Japanese task force in the Java Sea in the Dutch East Indies.
May 19 » World War II: In the aftermath of the Battle of the Coral Sea, Task Force 16 heads to Pearl Harbor.
August 8 » Quit India Movement is launched in India against the British rule in response to Mohandas Gandhi's call for swaraj or complete independence.
August 11 » Actress Hedy Lamarr and composer George Antheil receive a patent for a Frequency-hopping spread spectrum communication system that later became the basis for modern technologies in wireless telephones and Wi-Fi.
September 20 » The Holocaust in Ukraine: In the course of two days a German Einsatzgruppe murders at least 3,000 Jews in Letychiv.
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