The temperature on October 11, 1889 was about 8.3 °C. There was 3 mm of rain. The air pressure was 4 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the south-southeast. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 95%. Source: KNMI
January 22 » Columbia Phonograph is formed in Washington, D.C.
February 9 » US president Grover Cleveland signs a bill elevating the United States Department of Agriculture to a Cabinet-level agency.
March 23 » The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community is established by Mirza Ghulam Ahmad in Qadian, British India.
March 31 » The Eiffel Tower is officially opened.
May 2 » Menelik II, Emperor of Ethiopia, signs the Treaty of Wuchale, giving Italy control over Eritrea.
May 11 » An attack upon a U.S. Army paymaster and escort results in the theft of over $28,000 and the award of two Medals of Honor.
Day of marriage January 7, 1909
The temperature on January 7, 1909 was between 1.3 °C and 5.1 °C and averaged 3.2 °C. There was 2.0 mm of rain. There was 0.5 hours of sunshine (6%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
January 9 » Ernest Shackleton, leading the Nimrod Expedition to the South Pole, plants the British flag 97 nautical miles (180km; 112mi) from the South Pole, the farthest anyone had ever reached at that time.
February 12 » New Zealand's worst maritime disaster of the 20th century happens when the SSPenguin, an inter-island ferry, sinks and explodes at the entrance to Wellington Harbour.
February 26 » Kinemacolor, the first successful color motion picture process, is first shown to the general public at the Palace Theatre in London.
June 2 » Alfred Deakin becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the third time.
July 25 » Louis Blériot makes the first flight across the English Channel in a heavier-than-air machine from Calais to Dover, England, United Kingdom in 37 minutes.
August 19 » The first automobile race at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
Day of death September 30, 1957
The temperature on September 30, 1957 was between 3.1 °C and 13.4 °C and averaged 8.9 °C. There was 6.3 mm of rain during 2.4 hours. There was 3.9 hours of sunshine (33%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. Source: KNMI
January 1 » Lèse majesté in Thailand was strengthened to include "insult" and changed to a crime against national security, after Thai criminal code of 1956 went into effect.
June 9 » First ascent of Broad Peak by Fritz Wintersteller, Marcus Schmuck, Kurt Diemberger, and Hermann Buhl.
June 24 » In Roth v. United States, the U.S. Supreme Court rules that obscenity is not protected by the First Amendment.
July 6 » John Lennon and Paul McCartney meet for the first time, as teenagers at Woolton Fete, three years before forming the Beatles.
August 28 » U.S. Senator Strom Thurmond begins a filibuster to prevent the Senate from voting on Civil Rights Act of 1957; he stopped speaking 24 hours and 18 minutes later, the longest filibuster ever conducted by a single Senator.
September 5 » Cuban Revolution: Fulgencio Batista bombs the revolt in Cienfuegos.
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