The temperature on February 20, 1892 was about 1.0 °C. There was 1 mm of rain. The airpressure was 74 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 98%. 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.
April 15 » The General Electric Company is formed.
September 8 » The Pledge of Allegiance is first recited.
September 28 » The first night game for American football takes place in a contest between Wyoming Seminary and Mansfield State Normal.
October 12 » The Pledge of Allegiance is first recited by students in many US public schools.
October 26 » Ida B. Wells publishes Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases.
November 12 » Pudge Heffelfinger becomes the first professional American football player on record, participating in his first paid game for the Allegheny Athletic Association.
Day of marriage May 28, 1934
The temperature on May 28, 1934 was between 7.9 °C and 14.8 °C and averaged 11.8 °C. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. Source: KNMI
January 1 » Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay becomes a United States federal prison.
April 12 » The strongest surface wind gust in the world at the time of 231mph, is measured on the summit of Mount Washington, New Hampshire. It has since been surpassed.
July 5 » "Bloody Thursday": Police open fire on striking longshoremen in San Francisco.
September 1 » The first Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer animated cartoon, The Discontented Canary, is released to movie theatres.
November 30 » The LNER Class A3 4472 Flying Scotsman becomes the first steam locomotive to be authenticated as reaching 100mph.
December 5 » Abyssinia Crisis: Italian troops attack Wal Wal in Abyssinia, taking four days to capture the city.
Day of death February 2, 1990
The temperature on February 2, 1990 was between 5.8 °C and 9.1 °C and averaged 7.2 °C. There was 4.5 mm of rain during 4.4 hours. There was 5.1 hours of sunshine (56%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, November 7, 1989 to Monday, August 22, 1994 the cabinet Lubbers III, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
January 18 » Washington, D.C. Mayor Marion Barry is arrested for drug possession in an FBI sting.
March 18 » Germans in the German Democratic Republic vote in the first democratic elections in the former communist dictatorship.
April 24 » Gruinard Island, Scotland, is officially declared free of the anthrax disease after 48 years of quarantine.
July 6 » The Electronic Frontier Foundation is founded.
October 15 » Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to lessen Cold War tensions and open up his nation.
November 22 » British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher withdraws from the Conservative Party leadership election, confirming the end of her Prime-Ministership.
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