The temperature on April 8, 1889 was about 13.2 °C. The air pressure was 8 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the east. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 64%. Source: KNMI
January 22 » Columbia Phonograph is formed in Washington, D.C.
February 22 » President Grover Cleveland signs a bill admitting North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana and Washington as U.S. states.
May 2 » Menelik II, Emperor of Ethiopia, signs the Treaty of Wuchale, giving Italy control over Eritrea.
May 6 » The Eiffel Tower is officially opened to the public at the Universal Exposition in Paris.
August 13 » William Gray of Hartford, Connecticut is granted United States Patent Number 408,709 for "Coin-controlled apparatus for telephones."
October 24 » Henry Parkes delivers the Tenterfield Oration, effectively starting the federation process in Australia.
Day of marriage May 5, 1916
The temperature on May 5, 1916 was between 11.3 °C and 29.3 °C and averaged 20.1 °C. There was 6.6 hours of sunshine (44%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east. Source: KNMI
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.
June 5 » Louis Brandeis is sworn in as a Justice of the United States Supreme Court; he is the first American Jew to hold such a position.
September 19 » World War I: During the East African Campaign, colonial forces of the Belgian Congo (Force Publique) under the command of Charles Tombeur capture the town of Tabora after heavy fighting.
November 7 » Boston Elevated Railway Company's streetcar No. 393 smashes through the warning gates of the open Summer Street drawbridge in Boston, Massachusetts, plunging into the frigid waters of Fort Point Channel, killing 46 people.
November 7 » Woodrow Wilson is reelected as President of the United States.
November 19 » Samuel Goldwyn and Edgar Selwyn establish Goldwyn Pictures.
November 30 » Costa Rica signs the Buenos Aires Convention, a copyright treaty.
Day of death October 15, 1959
The temperature on October 15, 1959 was between 5.2 °C and 18.0 °C and averaged 11.1 °C. There was 8.6 hours of sunshine (80%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. Source: KNMI
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