The temperature on April 14, 1889 was about 5.5 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the northwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 97%. Source: KNMI
January 8 » Herman Hollerith is issued US patent #395,791 for the 'Art of Applying Statistics' — his punched card calculator.
April 1 » The University of Northern Colorado was established, as the Colorado State Normal School.
June 29 » Hyde Park and several other Illinois townships vote to be annexed by Chicago, forming the largest United States city in area and second largest in population at the time.
July 8 » The first issue of The Wall Street Journal is published.
September 23 » Nintendo Koppai (Later Nintendo Company, Limited) is founded by Fusajiro Yamauchi to produce and market the playing card game Hanafuda.
September 28 » The General Conference on Weights and Measures (CGPM) defines the length of a meter.
Day of death February 10, 1958
The temperature on February 10, 1958 was between 6.9 °C and 13.2 °C and averaged 10.5 °C. There was 2.7 hours of sunshine (28%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
January 1 » European Economic Community is established.
March 26 » The United States Army launches Explorer 3.
May 22 » The 1958 riots in Ceylon become a watershed in the race relations of various ethnic communities of Sri Lanka. The total deaths is estimated at 300, mostly Tamils.
May 27 » First flight of the McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II.
June 1 » Charles de Gaulle comes out of retirement to lead France by decree for six months.
August 18 » Vladimir Nabokov's controversial novel Lolita is published in the United States.
Day of burial February 13, 1958
The temperature on February 13, 1958 was between 2.3 °C and 11.4 °C and averaged 6.4 °C. There was 2.8 mm of rain during 3.9 hours. There was 0.2 hours of sunshine (2%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. Source: KNMI
March 16 » The Ford Motor Company produces its 50 millionth automobile, the Thunderbird, averaging almost a million cars a year since the company's founding.
March 27 » Nikita Khrushchev becomes Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union.
May 9 » Alfred Hitchcock's film Vertigo has world premiere in San Francisco.
June 17 » The Ironworkers Memorial Second Narrows Crossing, in the process of being built to connect Vancouver and North Vancouver (Canada), collapses into the Burrard Inlet killing 18 ironworkers and injuring others.
November 10 » The Hope Diamond is donated to the Smithsonian Institution by New York diamond merchant Harry Winston.
November 12 » A team of rock climbers led by Warren Harding completes the first ascent of The Nose on El Capitan in Yosemite Valley.
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