The temperature on March 19, 1895 was about 5.2 °C. There was 4 mm of rain. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 98%. Source: KNMI
February 24 » Revolution breaks out in Baire, a town near Santiago de Cuba, beginning the Cuban War of Independence, that ends with the Spanish–American War in 1898.
March 22 » Before the Société pour L'Encouragement à l'Industrie, brothers Auguste and Louis Lumière demonstrate movie film technology publicly for the first time.
April 17 » The Treaty of Shimonoseki between China and Japan is signed. This marks the end of the First Sino-Japanese War, and the defeated Qing Empire is forced to renounce its claims on Korea and to concede the southern portion of the Fengtien province, Taiwan and the Pescadores Islands to Japan.
April 24 » Joshua Slocum, the first person to sail single-handedly around the world, sets sail from Boston, Massachusetts aboard the sloop "Spray".
May 7 » In Saint Petersburg, Russian scientist Alexander Stepanovich Popov demonstrates to the Russian Physical and Chemical Society his invention, the Popov lightning detector—a primitive radio receiver. In some parts of the former Soviet Union the anniversary of this day is celebrated as Radio Day.
November 8 » While experimenting with electricity, Wilhelm Röntgen discovers the X-ray.
Day of marriage May 17, 1926
The temperature on May 17, 1926 was between 2.0 °C and 11.7 °C and averaged 7.5 °C. There was 0.7 mm of rain. There was 0.8 hours of sunshine (5%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north. Source: KNMI
January 26 » The first demonstration of the television by John Logie Baird.
May 4 » The United Kingdom general strike begins.
May 12 » The Italian-built airship Norge becomes the first vessel to fly over the North Pole.
May 28 » The 28 May 1926 coup d'état: Ditadura Nacional is established in Portugal to suppress the unrest of the First Republic.
September 8 » Germany is admitted to the League of Nations.
October 31 » Last issue of the independent Italian newspaper Il Mondo, thereafter suppressed by the Mussolini regime
Day of death September 23, 1953
The temperature on September 23, 1953 was between 11.6 °C and 16.6 °C and averaged 13.6 °C. There was 7.1 mm of rain during 6.8 hours. There was 1.7 hours of sunshine (14%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
March 18 » An earthquake hits western Turkey, killing 265 people.
May 4 » Ernest Hemingway wins the Pulitzer Prize for The Old Man and the Sea.
May 18 » Jackie Cochran becomes the first woman to break the sound barrier.
June 2 » The coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, who is crowned Queen of the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Her Other Realms and Territories & Head of the Commonwealth, the first major international event to be televised.
June 30 » The first Chevrolet Corvette rolls off the assembly line in Flint, Michigan.
September 12 » U.S. Senator and future President John Fitzgerald Kennedy marries Jacqueline Lee Bouvier at St. Mary's Church in Newport, Rhode Island.
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