The temperature on November 18, 1885 was about -1.6 °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 86%. 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.
March 3 » The American Telephone & Telegraph Company is incorporated in New York.
March 24 » Sino-French War: Chinese victory in the Battle of Bang Bo on the Tonkin-Guangxi border.
July 1 » The United States terminates reciprocity and fishery agreement with Canada.
July 6 » Louis Pasteur successfully tests his vaccine against rabies on Joseph Meister, a boy who was bitten by a rabid dog.
July 20 » The Football Association legalizes professionalism in association football under pressure from the British Football Association.
September 12 » Arbroath 36–0 Bon Accord, a world record scoreline in professional Association football.
Day of death February 26, 1954
The temperature on February 26, 1954 was between 2.0 °C and 7.4 °C and averaged 4.4 °C. There was 2.6 mm of rain during 2.8 hours. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
January 7 » Georgetown-IBM experiment: The first public demonstration of a machine translation system is held in New York at the head office of IBM.
May 7 » Indochina War: The Battle of Dien Bien Phu ends in a French defeat and a Viet Minh victory (the battle began on March 13).
July 5 » The BBC broadcasts its first television news bulletin.
July 20 » Germany: Otto John, head of West Germany's secret service, defects to East Germany.
November 30 » In Sylacauga, Alabama, United States, the Hodges meteorite crashes through a roof and hits a woman taking an afternoon nap; this is the only documented case in the Western Hemisphere of a human being hit by a rock from space.
December 2 » Cold War: The United States Senate votes 65 to 22 to censure Joseph McCarthy for "conduct that tends to bring the Senate into dishonor and disrepute".
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