The temperature on June 19, 1887 was about 23.3 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the east-northeast. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 36%. 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.
February 23 » The French Riviera is hit by a large earthquake, killing around 2,000.
May 9 » Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show opens in London.
June 8 » Herman Hollerith applies for US patent #395,781 for the 'Art of Compiling Statistics', which was his punched card calculator.
June 23 » The Rocky Mountains Park Act becomes law in Canada creating the nation's first national park, Banff National Park.
July 4 » The founder of Pakistan, Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, joins Sindh-Madrasa-tul-Islam, Karachi.
November 13 » Bloody Sunday clashes in central London.
Day of marriage November 7, 1912
The temperature on November 7, 1912 was between -0.5 °C and 6.4 °C and averaged 3.6 °C. There was 1.1 hours of sunshine (12%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
January 5 » The 6th All-Russian Conference of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Prague Party Conference) opens. In the course of the conference, Vladimir Lenin and his supporters break from the rest of the party to form the Bolshevik movement.
February 14 » Arizona is admitted as the 48th and the last contiguous U.S. state.
March 12 » The Girl Guides (later renamed the Girl Scouts of the USA) are founded in the United States.
June 8 » Carl Laemmle incorporates Universal Pictures.
September 28 » Corporal Frank S. Scott of the United States Army becomes the first enlisted man to die in an airplane crash.
October 19 » Italo-Turkish War: Italy takes possession of what is now Libya from the Ottoman Empire.
Day of death May 5, 1962
The temperature on May 5, 1962 was between 2.7 °C and 17.1 °C and averaged 11.4 °C. There was 7.5 hours of sunshine (50%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east. Source: KNMI
January 12 » Vietnam War: Operation Chopper, the first American combat mission in the war, takes place.
February 27 » Two dissident Republic of Vietnam Air Force pilots bomb the Independence Palace in Saigon in a failed attempt to assassinate South Vietnam President Ngô Đình Diệm.
March 4 » A Caledonian Airways Douglas DC-7 crashes shortly after takeoff from Cameroon, killing 111 - the worst crash of a DC-7.
April 21 » The Seattle World's Fair (Century 21 Exposition) opens. It is the first World's Fair in the United States since World War II.
July 30 » The Trans-Canada Highway, the longest national highway in the world, is officially opened.
September 6 » The United States government begins the Exercise Spade Fork nuclear readiness drill.
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