The temperature on January 15, 1890 was about 7.5 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 100%. Source: KNMI
January 1 » Eritrea is consolidated into a colony by the Italian government.
July 27 » Vincent van Gogh shoots himself and dies two days later.
August 7 » Anna Månsdotter became the last woman to be executed in Sweden for the 1889 Yngsjö murder.
September 25 » The United States Congress establishes Sequoia National Park.
October 11 » In Washington, D.C., the Daughters of the American Revolution is founded.
December 22 » Cornwallis Valley Railway begins operation between Kentville and Kingsport, Nova Scotia.
Day of marriage May 6, 1912
The temperature on May 6, 1912 was between 7.4 °C and 19.5 °C and averaged 12.0 °C. There was 6.4 mm of rain. There was 6.1 hours of sunshine (40%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
January 17 » British polar explorer Captain Robert Falcon Scott reaches the South Pole, one month after Roald Amundsen.
February 29 » The Piedra Movediza (Moving Stone) of Tandil falls and breaks.
April 15 » The British passenger liner RMSTitanic sinks in the North Atlantic at 2:20a.m., two hours and forty minutes after hitting an iceberg. Only 710 of 2,227 passengers and crew on board survive.
October 24 » First Balkan War: The Battle of Kumanovo concludes with the Serbian victory against the Ottoman Empire.
December 3 » Bulgaria, Greece, Montenegro, and Serbia (the Balkan League) sign an armistice with the Ottoman Empire, temporarily halting the First Balkan War. (The armistice will expire on February 3, 1913, and hostilities will resume.)
December 28 » The first municipally owned streetcars take to the streets in San Francisco.
Day of death June 14, 1960
The temperature on June 14, 1960 was between 8.5 °C and 16.8 °C and averaged 12.1 °C. There was 6.0 mm of rain during 2.4 hours. There was 5.0 hours of sunshine (30%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
January 6 » The Associations Law comes into force in Iraq, allowing registration of political parties.
May 3 » The Anne Frank House museum opens in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
June 20 » The Mali Federation gains independence from France (it later splits into Mali and Senegal).
September 8 » In Huntsville, Alabama, US President Dwight D. Eisenhower formally dedicates the Marshall Space Flight Center (NASA had already activated the facility on July 1).
September 24 » USSEnterprise, the world's first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, is launched.
December 15 » King Mahendra of Nepal suspends the country's constitution, dissolves parliament, dismisses the cabinet, and imposes direct rule.
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