The temperature on February 18, 1889 was about 8.6 °C. The air pressure was 10 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 90%. Source: KNMI
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.
June 29 » Hyde Park and several other Illinois townships vote to be annexed by Chicago, forming the largest United States city in area and second largest in population at the time.
July 8 » The first issue of The Wall Street Journal is published.
August 13 » William Gray of Hartford, Connecticut is granted United States Patent Number 408,709 for "Coin-controlled apparatus for telephones."
September 28 » The General Conference on Weights and Measures (CGPM) defines the length of a meter.
Day of marriage July 20, 1920
The temperature on July 20, 1920 was between 9.5 °C and 22.0 °C and averaged 16.4 °C. There was 12.0 hours of sunshine (74%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from September 9, 1918 to September 18, 1922 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck I, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
January 26 » Former Ford Motor Company executive Henry Leland launches the Lincoln Motor Company which he later sold to his former employer.
February 24 » The Nazi Party (NSDAP) was founded by Adolf Hitler in the Hofbräuhaus beer hall in Munich, Germany
March 14 » In the second of the 1920 Schleswig plebiscites, about 80% of the population in Zone II votes to remain part of Weimar Germany.
March 22 » Azeri and Turkish army soldiers with participation of Kurdish gangs attacked the Armenian inhabitants of Shushi (Nagorno Karabakh).
March 28 » Palm Sunday tornado outbreak of 1920 affects the Great Lakes region and Deep South states.
August 11 » The Latvian–Soviet Peace Treaty, which relinquished Russia's authority and pretenses to Latvia, is signed, ending the Latvian War of Independence.
Day of death August 21, 1952
The temperature on August 21, 1952 was between 11.8 °C and 17.3 °C and averaged 14.6 °C. There was 1.0 mm of rain during 1.0 hours. There was 4.0 hours of sunshine (28%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. Source: KNMI
February 21 » The Bengali Language Movement protests occur at the University of Dhaka in East Pakistan (now Bangladesh).
May 3 » Lieutenant Colonels Joseph O. Fletcher and William P. Benedict of the United States land a plane at the North Pole.
May 13 » The Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Parliament of India, holds its first sitting.
July 19 » Opening of the Summer Olympics in Helsinki, Finland.
July 23 » General Muhammad Naguib leads the Free Officers Movement (formed by Gamal Abdel Nasser, the real power behind the coup) in overthrowing King Farouk of Egypt.
September 8 » The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation makes its first televised broadcast on the second escape of the Boyd Gang.
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