The temperature on December 8, 1890 was about -6.2 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the east-northeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 93%. Source: KNMI
January 1 » Eritrea is consolidated into a colony by the Italian government.
March 20 » Prime Minister of the German Empire Otto von Bismarck is dismissed by Emperor Wilhelm II.
April 14 » The Pan-American Union is founded by the First International Conference of American States in Washington, D.C.
July 26 » In Buenos Aires, Argentina the Revolución del Parque takes place, forcing President Miguel Ángel Juárez Celman's resignation.
July 27 » Vincent van Gogh shoots himself and dies two days later.
December 22 » Cornwallis Valley Railway begins operation between Kentville and Kingsport, Nova Scotia.
Day of marriage May 8, 1916
The temperature on May 8, 1916 was between 6.6 °C and 12.5 °C and averaged 9.2 °C. There was 2.4 mm of rain. There was 1.9 hours of sunshine (12%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from August 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
February 29 » Tokelau is annexed by the United Kingdom.
April 29 » Easter Rising: After six days of fighting, Irish rebel leaders surrender to British forces in Dublin, bringing the Easter Rising to an end.
June 24 » Mary Pickford becomes the first female film star to sign a million-dollar contract.
June 29 » British diplomat turned Irish nationalist Roger Casement is sentenced to death for his part in the Easter Rising.
November 21 » Mines from SM U-73 sink the HMHS Britannic, the largest ship lost in the First World War.
December 29 » A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, the first novel by James Joyce, was first published as a book by an American publishing house B. W. Huebschis after it had been serialized in The Egoist (1914–15).
Day of death November 15, 1975
The temperature on November 15, 1975 was between -1.1 °C and 8.9 °C and averaged 3.5 °C. There was 4.4 mm of rain during 5.2 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Friday, May 11, 1973 to Monday, December 19, 1977 the cabinet Den Uyl, with Drs. J.M. den Uyl (PvdA) as prime minister.
May 27 » Dibbles Bridge coach crash near Grassington, in North Yorkshire, England, kills 33 – the highest ever death toll in a road accident in the United Kingdom.
June 20 » The film Jaws is released in the United States, becoming the highest-grossing film of that time and starting the trend of films known as "summer blockbusters".
June 26 » Two FBI agents and a member of the American Indian Movement are killed in a shootout on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota; Leonard Peltier is later convicted of the murders in a controversial trial.
October 10 » Papua New Guinea joins the United Nations.
November 7 » In Bangladesh, a joint force of people and soldiers takes part in an uprising led by Colonel Abu Taher that ousts and kills Brigadier Khaled Mosharraf, freeing the then house-arrested army chief and future president Maj-Gen. Ziaur Rahman.
November 12 » The Comoros joins the United Nations.
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