The temperature on October 4, 1889 was about 12.5 °C. The air pressure was 4 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the south-southeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 87%. Source: KNMI
May 6 » The Eiffel Tower is officially opened to the public at the Universal Exposition in Paris.
May 31 » Johnstown Flood: Over 2,200 people die after a dam fails and sends a 60-foot (18-meter) wall of water over the town of Johnstown, Pennsylvania.
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.
November 15 » Brazil is declared a republic by Marshal Deodoro da Fonseca as Emperor Pedro II is deposed in a military coup.
November 23 » The first jukebox goes into operation at the Palais Royale Saloon in San Francisco.
Day of marriage May 19, 1911
The temperature on May 19, 1911 was between 8.5 °C and 11.9 °C and averaged 10.0 °C. There was 0.8 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. Source: KNMI
January 15 » Palestinian Arabic-language Falastin newspaper founded.
March 25 » In New York City, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire kills 146 garment workers.
April 29 » Tsinghua University, one of mainland China's leading universities, is founded.
May 15 » In Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey v. United States, the United States Supreme Court declares Standard Oil to be an "unreasonable" monopoly under the Sherman Antitrust Act and orders the company to be broken up.
July 4 » A massive heat wave strikes the northeastern United States, killing 380 people in eleven days and breaking temperature records in several cities.
August 29 » The Canadian Naval Service becomes the Royal Canadian Navy.
Day of death April 15, 1965
The temperature on April 15, 1965 was between 6.4 °C and 11.3 °C and averaged 8.8 °C. There was 14.0 mm of rain during 13.5 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
February 19 » Colonel Phạm Ngọc Thảo of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam, and a communist spy of the North Vietnamese Viet Minh, along with Generals Lâm Văn Phát and Trần Thiện Khiêm, all Catholics, attempt a coup against the military junta of the Buddhist Nguyễn Khánh.
April 29 » Pakistan's Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission (SUPARCO) successfully launches its seventh rocket in its Rehber series.
September 7 » During an Indo-Pakistani War, China announces that it will reinforce its troops on the Indian border.
November 9 » A Catholic Worker Movement member, Roger Allen LaPorte, protesting against the Vietnam War, sets himself on fire in front of the United Nations building.
November 24 » Joseph-Désiré Mobutu seizes power in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and becomes President; he rules the country (which he renames Zaire in 1971) for over 30 years, until being overthrown by rebels in 1997.
November 26 » France launches Astérix, becoming the third nation to put an object in orbit using its own booster.
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