The temperature on February 11, 1889 was about -4.1 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain. The airpressure was 74 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 85%. Source: KNMI
January 15 » The Coca-Cola Company, then known as the Pemberton Medicine Company, is incorporated in Atlanta.
April 1 » The University of Northern Colorado was established, as the Colorado State Normal School.
May 6 » The Eiffel Tower is officially opened to the public at the Universal Exposition in Paris.
June 6 » The Great Seattle Fire destroys all of downtown Seattle.
August 4 » The Great Fire of Spokane, Washington destroys some 32 blocks of the city, prompting a mass rebuilding project.
August 13 » William Gray of Hartford, Connecticut is granted United States Patent Number 408,709 for "Coin-controlled apparatus for telephones."
Day of death January 26, 1940
The average temperature on January 26, 1940 was -1.5 °C. There was 3.3 mm of rain during 2.5 hours. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from August 10, 1939 to September 3, 1940 the cabinet De Geer II, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
In The Netherlands , there was from September 3, 1940 to July 27, 1941 the cabinet Gerbrandy I, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
February 29 » In a ceremony held in Berkeley, California, physicist Ernest Lawrence receives the 1939 Nobel Prize in Physics from Sweden's Consul General in San Francisco.
May 5 » World War II: Norwegian Campaign: Norwegian squads in Hegra Fortress and Vinjesvingen capitulate to German forces after all other Norwegian forces in southern Norway had laid down their arms.
June 11 » World War II: The Siege of Malta begins with a series of Italian air raids.
June 14 » World War II: The German occupation of Paris begins.
August 20 » World War II: British Prime Minister Winston Churchill makes the fourth of his famous wartime speeches, containing the line "Never was so much owed by so many to so few".
September 7 » Romania returns Southern Dobruja to Bulgaria under the Treaty of Craiova.
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