The temperature on December 21, 1889 was about 4.3 °C. There was 7 mm of rain. The air pressure was 4 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 97%. Source: KNMI
January 22 » Columbia Phonograph is formed in Washington, D.C.
March 23 » The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community is established by Mirza Ghulam Ahmad in Qadian, British India.
March 31 » The Eiffel Tower is officially opened.
June 6 » The Great Seattle Fire destroys all of downtown Seattle.
July 8 » The first issue of The Wall Street Journal is published.
September 23 » Nintendo Koppai (Later Nintendo Company, Limited) is founded by Fusajiro Yamauchi to produce and market the playing card game Hanafuda.
Day of marriage December 3, 1921
The temperature on December 3, 1921 was between -8.9 °C and -2.0 °C and averaged -6.3 °C. There was 6.4 hours of sunshine (80%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. 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.
March 15 » Talaat Pasha, former Grand Vizir of the Ottoman Empire and chief architect of the Armenian Genocide is assassinated in Berlin by a 23-year-old Armenian, Soghomon Tehlirian.
May 31 » The Tulsa race massacre kills at least 39, but other estimates of black fatalities vary from 55 to about 300.
July 27 » Researchers at the University of Toronto, led by biochemist Frederick Banting, prove that the hormone insulin regulates blood sugar.
October 8 » KDKA in Pittsburgh's Forbes Field conducts the first live broadcast of a football game.
October 21 » President Warren G. Harding delivers the first speech by a sitting U.S. President against lynching in the deep South.
December 6 » The Anglo-Irish Treaty is signed in London by British and Irish representatives.
Day of death August 10, 1966
The temperature on August 10, 1966 was between 15.6 °C and 21.7 °C and averaged 18.0 °C. There was 0.7 mm of rain during 0.5 hours. There was 1.9 hours of sunshine (13%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
January 13 » Robert C. Weaver becomes the first African American Cabinet member when he is appointed United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.
April 26 » The magnitude 5.1 Tashkent earthquake affects the largest city in Soviet Central Asia with a maximum MSK intensity of VII (Very strong). Tashkent is mostly destroyed and 15–200 are killed.
August 23 » Lunar Orbiter 1 takes the first photograph of Earth from orbit around the Moon.
September 16 » The Metropolitan Opera House opens at Lincoln Center in New York City with the world premiere of Samuel Barber's opera Antony and Cleopatra.
October 9 » Vietnam War: South Korean troops commit the Binh Tai Massacre.
November 30 » Barbados becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
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