The temperature on July 14, 1885 was about 23.9 °C. The air pressure was 3 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 54%. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from April 23, 1884 to April 21, 1888 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief) as prime minister.
February 23 » Sino-French War: French Army gains an important victory in the Battle of Đồng Đăng in the Tonkin region of Vietnam.
April 30 » Governor of New York David B. Hill signs legislation creating the Niagara Reservation, New York's first state park, ensuring that Niagara Falls will not be devoted solely to industrial and commercial use.
August 29 » Gottlieb Daimler patents the world's first internal combustion motorcycle, the Reitwagen.
September 2 » Rock Springs massacre: In Rock Springs, Wyoming, 150 white miners, who are struggling to unionize so they could strike for better wages and work conditions, attack their Chinese fellow workers killing 28, wounding 15 and forcing several hundred more out of town.
September 22 » Lord Randolph Churchill makes a speech in Ulster in opposition to the Irish Home Rule movement.
November 16 » Canadian rebel leader of the Métis and "Father of Manitoba" Louis Riel is executed for treason.
Day of marriage June 10, 1913
The temperature on June 10, 1913 was between 10.8 °C and 14.8 °C and averaged 12.4 °C. There was 16.1 mm of rain. There was 0.3 hours of sunshine (2%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from February 12, 1908 to August 29, 1913 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. Th. Heemskerk (AR) as prime minister.
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.
February 9 » A group of meteors is visible across much of the eastern seaboard of North and South America, leading astronomers to conclude the source had been a small, short-lived natural satellite of the Earth.
March 3 » Thousands of women march in the Woman Suffrage Procession in Washington, D.C.
April 8 » The 17th Amendment to the United States Constitution, requiring direct election of Senators, becomes law.
April 24 » The Woolworth Building, a skyscraper in New York City, is opened.
August 16 » Completion of the Royal Navy battlecruiser HMSQueen Mary.
August 28 » Queen Wilhelmina opens the Peace Palace in The Hague.
Day of death March 3, 1952
The temperature on March 3, 1952 was between 5.2 °C and 14.3 °C and averaged 9.0 °C. There was 1.5 hours of sunshine (14%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
April 8 » U.S. President Harry Truman calls for the seizure of all domestic steel mills in an attempt to prevent the 1952 steel strike.
April 21 » Secretary's Day (now Administrative Professionals' Day) is first celebrated.
July 23 » General Muhammad Naguib leads the Free Officers Movement (formed by Gamal Abdel Nasser, the real power behind the coup) in overthrowing King Farouk of Egypt.
August 11 » Hussein bin Talal is proclaimed King of Jordan.
August 15 » A flash flood drenches the town of Lynmouth, England, killing 34 people.
October 14 » Korean War: The Battle of Triangle Hill is the biggest and bloodiest battle of 1952.
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