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
April 1 » The University of Northern Colorado was established, as the Colorado State Normal School.
June 3 » The first long-distance electric power transmission line in the United States is completed, running 14 miles (23km) between a generator at Willamette Falls and downtown Portland, Oregon.
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 14 » Pioneering female journalist Nellie Bly (aka Elizabeth Cochrane) begins a successful attempt to travel around the world in less than 80 days. She completes the trip in 72 days.
November 15 » Brazil is declared a republic by Marshal Deodoro da Fonseca as Emperor Pedro II is deposed in a military coup.
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 28 » United States troops leave Cuba with the exception of Guantanamo Bay Naval Base after being there since the Spanish–American War.
March 4 » U.S. President William Taft used what became known as a Saxbe fix, a mechanism to avoid the restriction of the U.S. Constitution's Ineligibility Clause, to appoint Philander C. Knox as U.S. Secretary of State.
April 27 » Sultan of Ottoman Empire Abdul Hamid II is overthrown, and is succeeded by his brother, Mehmed V.
August 7 » Alice Huyler Ramsey and three friends become the first women to complete a transcontinental auto trip, taking 59 days to travel from New York, New York to San Francisco, California.
August 30 » Burgess Shale fossils are discovered by Charles Doolittle Walcott.
October 16 » William Howard Taft and Porfirio Díaz hold the first summit between a U.S. and a Mexican president. They narrowly escape assassination.
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
March 25 » United States Customs seizes copies of Allen Ginsberg's poem "Howl" on obscenity grounds.
May 15 » At Malden Island in the Pacific Ocean, Britain tests its first hydrogen bomb in Operation Grapple.
September 4 » The Ford Motor Company introduces the Edsel.
October 22 » Vietnam War: First United States casualties in Vietnam.
November 8 » Pan Am Flight 7 disappears between San Francisco and Honolulu. Wreckage and bodies are discovered a week later.
November 17 » Vickers Viscount G-AOHP of British European Airways crashes at Ballerup after the failure of three engines on approach to Copenhagen Airport. The cause is a malfunction of the anti-icing system on the aircraft. There are no fatalities.
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