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 22 » The United Mine Workers of America is founded in Columbus, Ohio.
July 2 » The U.S. Congress passes the Sherman Antitrust Act.
July 27 » Vincent van Gogh shoots himself and dies two days later.
October 1 » Yosemite National Park is established by the U.S. Congress.
November 4 » City and South London Railway: London's first deep-level tube railway opens between King William Street and Stockwell.
December 22 » Cornwallis Valley Railway begins operation between Kentville and Kingsport, Nova Scotia.
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 12 » Acting to restore confidence in baseball after the Black Sox Scandal, Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis is elected as Major League Baseball's first commissioner.
February 21 » Rezā Shāh takes control of Tehran during a successful coup.
March 20 » The Upper Silesia plebiscite was a plebiscite mandated by the Versailles Treaty to determine a section of the border between Weimar Germany and Poland.
July 29 » Adolf Hitler becomes leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party.
August 28 » The Red Army dissolved the Free Territory, after driving the Black Army out of Ukraine.
October 18 » The Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic is formed as part of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.
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
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