The temperature on January 11, 1885 was about 4.1 °C. There was 5 mm of rain. The air pressure was 30 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the southwest. The airpressure was 73 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 91%. 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.
March 3 » The American Telephone & Telegraph Company is incorporated in New York.
March 19 » Louis Riel declares a provisional government in Saskatchewan, beginning the North-West Rebellion.
March 30 » The Battle for Kushka triggers the Panjdeh Incident which nearly gives rise to war between the Russian and British Empire.
July 6 » Louis Pasteur successfully tests his vaccine against rabies on Joseph Meister, a boy who was bitten by a rabid dog.
July 20 » The Football Association legalizes professionalism in association football under pressure from the British Football Association.
December 22 » Itō Hirobumi, a samurai, became the first Prime Minister of Japan.
Day of death July 9, 1966
The temperature on July 9, 1966 was between 14.3 °C and 23.0 °C and averaged 18.2 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain during 0.4 hours. There was 2.6 hours of sunshine (16%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
August 1 » Charles Whitman kills 16 people at the University of Texas at Austin before being killed by the police.
August 22 » Labor movements NFWA and AWOC merge to become the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee (UFWOC), predecessor of the United Farm Workers.
October 4 » Basutoland becomes independent from the United Kingdom and is renamed Lesotho.
October 22 » The Soviet Union launches Luna 12.
December 8 » The Greek ship SSHeraklion sinks in a storm in the Aegean Sea, killing over 200.
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