The temperature on December 24, 1893 was about 3.1 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 100%. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from August 21, 1891 to May 9, 1894 the cabinet Van Tienhoven, with Mr. G. van Tienhoven (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
January 21 » The Tati Concessions Land, formerly part of Matabeleland, is formally annexed to the Bechuanaland Protectorate, now Botswana.
May 1 » The World's Columbian Exposition opens in Chicago.
August 27 » The Sea Islands hurricane strikes the United States near Savannah, Georgia, killing between 1,000–2,000 people.
September 20 » Charles Duryea and his brother road-test the first American-made gasoline-powered automobile.
October 28 » Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 6 in B Minor, Pathétique receives its première performance only nine days before the composer's death.
November 28 » Women's suffrage in New Zealand concludes with the 1893 New Zealand general election.
Day of death July 28, 1960
The temperature on July 28, 1960 was between 8.6 °C and 17.2 °C and averaged 14.7 °C. There was 2.7 mm of rain during 4.9 hours. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
June 25 » Cold War: Two cryptographers working for the United States National Security Agency left for vacation to Mexico, and from there defected to the Soviet Union.
July 20 » Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) elects Sirimavo Bandaranaike Prime Minister, the world's first elected female head of government.
November 14 » Ruby Bridges becomes the first black child to attend an all-white elementary school in Louisiana.
December 9 » The first episode of Coronation Street, the world's longest-running television soap opera, is broadcast in the United Kingdom.
December 13 » While Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia visits Brazil, his Imperial Bodyguard seizes the capital and proclaims him deposed and his son, Crown Prince Asfa Wossen, Emperor.
December 15 » King Mahendra of Nepal suspends the country's constitution, dissolves parliament, dismisses the cabinet, and imposes direct rule.
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