The temperature on December 2, 1888 was about 6.0 °C. The air pressure was 14 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 94%. 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.
In The Netherlands , there was from April 21, 1888 to August 21, 1891 the cabinet Mackay, with Mr. A. baron Mackay (AR) as prime minister.
January 13 » The National Geographic Society is founded in Washington, D.C.
March 15 » Start of the Anglo-Tibetan War of 1888.
March 23 » In England, The Football League, the world's oldest professional association football league, meets for the first time.
September 8 » In England, the first six Football League matches are played.
September 8 » In London, the body of Jack the Ripper's second murder victim, Annie Chapman, is found.
October 14 » Louis Le Prince films the first motion picture, Roundhay Garden Scene.
Day of death March 3, 1969
The temperature on March 3, 1969 was between 1.4 °C and 6.7 °C and averaged 3.9 °C. There was 0.4 hours of sunshine (4%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east. Source: KNMI
January 20 » Richard Nixon is inaugurated the 37th President of the United States of America.
March 2 » In Toulouse, France, the first test flight of the Anglo-French Concorde is conducted.
May 16 » Venera program: Venera 5, a Soviet space probe, lands on Venus.
July 20 » Apollo program: Apollo 11's crew successfully makes the first manned landing on the Moon in the Sea of Tranquility. Americans Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin become the first humans to walk on the Moon six and a half hours later.
August 21 » Gap Inc. opened their first store in San Francisco, California.
October 17 » The Caravaggio painting Nativity with St. Francis and St. Lawrence is stolen from the Oratory of Saint Lawrence in Palermo.
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