The temperature on October 12, 1887 was about 5.1 °C. There was 4 mm of rain. The air pressure was 14 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 93%. 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.
January 20 » The United States Senate allows the Navy to lease Pearl Harbor as a naval base.
June 8 » Herman Hollerith applies for US patent #395,781 for the 'Art of Compiling Statistics', which was his punched card calculator.
June 18 » The Reinsurance Treaty between Germany and Russia is signed.
June 23 » The Rocky Mountains Park Act becomes law in Canada creating the nation's first national park, Banff National Park.
July 4 » The founder of Pakistan, Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, joins Sindh-Madrasa-tul-Islam, Karachi.
September 5 » A fire at the Theatre Royal, Exeter, kills 186.
Day of marriage April 2, 1907
The temperature on April 2, 1907 was between 2.8 °C and 18.1 °C and averaged 10.6 °C. There was 9.8 hours of sunshine (75%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from August 17, 1905 to February 11, 1908 the cabinet De Meester, with Mr. Th. de Meester (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
August 15 » Ordination in Constantinople of Fr. Raphael Morgan, the first African-American Orthodox priest, "Priest-Apostolic" to America and the West Indies.
August 17 » Pike Place Market, a popular tourist destination and registered historic district in Seattle, opened.
October 17 » Marconi begins the first commercial transatlantic wireless service.
December 8 » King Gustaf V of Sweden accedes to the Swedish throne.
December 10 » The worst night of the Brown Dog riots in London, when 1,000 medical students clash with 400 police officers over the existence of a memorial for animals that have been vivisected.
December 11 » The New Zealand Parliament Buildings are almost completely destroyed by fire.
Day of death December 22, 1974
The temperature on December 22, 1974 was between 4.2 °C and 9.3 °C and averaged 7.3 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 0.1 hours. There was 3.1 hours of sunshine (40%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Friday, May 11, 1973 to Monday, December 19, 1977 the cabinet Den Uyl, with Drs. J.M. den Uyl (PvdA) as prime minister.
April 6 » The Swedish pop band ABBA wins the Eurovision Song Contest with the song "Waterloo", launching their international career.
July 23 » The Greek military junta collapses, and former Prime Minister Konstantinos Karamanlis is invited to lead the new government, beginning Greece's metapolitefsi era.
July 28 » Spetsgruppa A, Russia's elite special force, was formed.
October 19 » Niue becomes a self-governing colony of New Zealand.
November 20 » The first fatal crash of a Boeing 747 occurs when Lufthansa Flight 540 crashes while attempting to takeoff from Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi, Kenya, killing 59 out of the 157 people on board.
November 23 » Sixty Ethiopian politicians, aristocrats, military officers, and other persons are executed by the provisional military government.
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