The temperature on July 19, 1889 was about 14.7 °C. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the west. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 91%. Source: KNMI
January 22 » Columbia Phonograph is formed in Washington, D.C.
March 23 » The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community is established by Mirza Ghulam Ahmad in Qadian, British India.
July 8 » The first issue of The Wall Street Journal is published.
September 23 » Nintendo Koppai (Later Nintendo Company, Limited) is founded by Fusajiro Yamauchi to produce and market the playing card game Hanafuda.
November 8 » Montana is admitted as the 41st U.S. state.
November 15 » Brazil is declared a republic by Marshal Deodoro da Fonseca as Emperor Pedro II is deposed in a military coup.
Day of marriage January 18, 1912
The temperature on January 18, 1912 was between -6.0 °C and 0.1 °C and averaged -2.9 °C. There was 1.8 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. Source: KNMI
January 6 » German geophysicist Alfred Wegener first presents his theory of continental drift.
January 17 » British polar explorer Captain Robert Falcon Scott reaches the South Pole, one month after Roald Amundsen.
February 29 » The Piedra Movediza (Moving Stone) of Tandil falls and breaks.
May 4 » Italy occupies the Greek island of Rhodes.
October 24 » First Balkan War: The Battle of Kirk Kilisse concludes with a Bulgarian victory against the Ottoman Empire.
December 6 » The Nefertiti Bust is discovered.
Day of death August 9, 1944
The temperature on August 9, 1944 was between 11.2 °C and 23.6 °C and averaged 17.5 °C. There was 7.1 hours of sunshine (47%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from July 27, 1941 to February 23, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy II, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
May 1 » World War II: Two hundred Communist prisoners are shot by the Germans at Kaisariani, Athens in reprisal for the killing of General Franz Krech by partisans at Molaoi.
June 25 » World War II: The Battle of Tali-Ihantala, the largest battle ever fought in the Nordic countries, begins.
August 12 » Alençon is liberated by General Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque, the first city in France to be liberated from the Nazis by French forces.
September 11 » World War II: RAF bombing raid on Darmstadt and the following firestorm kill 11,500.
October 19 » United States forces land in the Philippines.
October 25 » Second World War: The final attempt of the Imperial Japanese Navy to win the war climaxes at the Battle of Leyte Gulf.
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