The temperature on March 21, 1888 was about -0.5 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain. The air pressure was 4 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the north-northeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 90%. 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.
April 6 » Thomas Green Clemson dies, bequeathing his estate to the State of South Carolina to establish Clemson Agricultural College.
May 16 » Nikola Tesla delivers a lecture describing the equipment which will allow efficient generation and use of alternating currents to transmit electric power over long distances.
June 5 » The Rio de la Plata earthquake takes place.
August 5 » Bertha Benz drives from Mannheim to Pforzheim and back in the first long distance automobile trip, commemorated as the Bertha Benz Memorial Route since 2008.
September 30 » Jack the Ripper kills his third and fourth victims, Elizabeth Stride and Catherine Eddowes.
October 17 » Thomas Edison files a patent for the Optical Phonograph (the first movie).
Day of marriage January 31, 1910
The temperature on January 31, 1910 was between -0.6 °C and 5.5 °C and averaged 2.0 °C. There was 5.3 hours of sunshine (59%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
January 15 » Construction ends on the Buffalo Bill Dam in Wyoming, United States, which was the highest dam in the world at the time, at 325ft (99m).
March 8 » French aviator Raymonde de Laroche becomes the first woman to receive a pilot's license.
June 17 » Aurel Vlaicu pilots an A. Vlaicu nr. 1 on its first flight.
June 25 » The United States Congress passes the Mann Act, which prohibits interstate transport of women or girls for “immoral purposes”; the ambiguous language would be used to selectively prosecute people for years to come.
July 24 » The Ottoman Empire captures the city of Shkodër, putting down the Albanian Revolt of 1910.
November 14 » Aviator Eugene Burton Ely performs the first takeoff from a ship in Hampton Roads, Virginia, taking off from a makeshift deck on the USS Birmingham in a Curtiss pusher.
Day of death May 31, 1970
The temperature on May 31, 1970 was between 10.8 °C and 16.6 °C and averaged 13.9 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain during 0.6 hours. There was 9.4 hours of sunshine (57%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
March 6 » An explosion at the Weather Underground safe house in Greenwich Village kills three.
April 1 » President Richard Nixon signs the Public Health Cigarette Smoking Act into law, requiring the Surgeon General's warnings on tobacco products and banning cigarette advertising on television and radio in the United States, effective 1 January 1971.
April 11 » Apollo 13 is launched.
August 17 » Venera program: Venera 7 launched. It will later become the first spacecraft to successfully transmit data from the surface of another planet (Venus).
November 18 » U.S. President Richard Nixon asks the U.S. Congress for $155 million in supplemental aid for the Cambodian government.
December 15 » Soviet spacecraft Venera 7 successfully lands on Venus. It is the first successful soft landing on another planet.
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