The temperature on January 28, 1889 was about 3.0 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 10 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 91%. 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.
September 23 » Nintendo Koppai (Later Nintendo Company, Limited) is founded by Fusajiro Yamauchi to produce and market the playing card game Hanafuda.
October 24 » Henry Parkes delivers the Tenterfield Oration, effectively starting the federation process in Australia.
November 11 » The State of Washington is admitted as the 42nd state of the United States.
Day of marriage December 5, 1912
The temperature on December 5, 1912 was between -0.3 °C and 3.7 °C and averaged 1.2 °C. There was 2.9 hours of sunshine (36%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east. Source: KNMI
January 5 » The 6th All-Russian Conference of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Prague Party Conference) opens. In the course of the conference, Vladimir Lenin and his supporters break from the rest of the party to form the Bolshevik movement.
April 2 » The ill-fated RMSTitanic begins sea trials.
April 14 » The British passenger liner RMSTitanic hits an iceberg in the North Atlantic at 23:40 (sinks morning of April 15th).
November 5 » Woodrow Wilson is elected the 28th President of the United States, defeating incumbent William Howard Taft.
December 8 » Leaders of the German Empire hold an Imperial War Council to discuss the possibility that war might break out.
December 28 » The first municipally owned streetcars take to the streets in San Francisco.
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