The temperature on February 17, 1890 was about 1.1 °C. The air pressure was 3 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the east-southeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 74%. Source: KNMI
January 25 » Nellie Bly completes her round-the-world journey in 72 days.
July 2 » The U.S. Congress passes the Sherman Antitrust Act.
July 26 » In Buenos Aires, Argentina the Revolución del Parque takes place, forcing President Miguel Ángel Juárez Celman's resignation.
July 27 » Vincent van Gogh shoots himself and dies two days later.
September 24 » The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints officially renounces polygamy.
November 29 » The Meiji Constitution goes into effect in Japan, and the first Diet convenes.
Day of marriage February 15, 1921
The temperature on February 15, 1921 was between 2.8 °C and 8.0 °C and averaged 5.5 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain. There was 0.2 hours of sunshine (2%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from September 9, 1918 to September 18, 1922 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck I, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
January 9 » Greco-Turkish War: The First Battle of İnönü, the first battle of the war, begins near Eskişehir in Anatolia.
January 16 » The Marxist Left in Slovakia and the Transcarpathian Ukraine holds its founding congress in Ľubochňa.
March 1 » Following mass protests in Petrograd demanding greater freedom in the RSFSR, the Kronstadt rebellion began, with sailors and citizens taking up arms against the Bolsheviks.
March 17 » The Second Polish Republic adopts the March Constitution.
March 19 » Irish War of Independence: One of the biggest engagements of the war takes place at Crossbarry, County Cork. About 100 Irish Republican Army (IRA) volunteers escape an attempt by over 1,300 British forces to encircle them.
August 28 » The Red Army dissolved the Free Territory, after driving the Black Army out of Ukraine.
Day of death November 25, 1955
The temperature on November 25, 1955 was between -3.1 °C and 4.3 °C and averaged 0.9 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 0.3 hours. There was 6.0 hours of sunshine (72%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
June 14 » Chile becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
July 27 » The Austrian State Treaty restores Austrian sovereignty.
August 19 » In the Northeast United States, severe flooding caused by Hurricane Diane, claims 200 lives.
August 28 » Black teenager Emmett Till is brutally murdered in Mississippi, galvanizing the nascent civil rights movement.
November 1 » The bombing of United Airlines Flight 629 occurs near Longmont, Colorado, killing all 39 passengers and five crew members aboard the Douglas DC-6B airliner.
December 1 » American Civil Rights Movement: In Montgomery, Alabama, seamstress Rosa Parks refuses to give up her bus seat to a white man and is arrested for violating the city's racial segregation laws, an incident which leads to that city's bus boycott.
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