The temperature on January 14, 1886 was about 2.0 °C. There was 0.8 mm of rain. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the northwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 100%. 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.
February 23 » Charles Martin Hall produced the first samples of aluminium from the electrolysis of aluminium oxide, after several years of intensive work. He was assisted in this project by his older sister, Julia Brainerd Hall.
March 29 » John Pemberton brews the first batch of Coca-Cola in a backyard in Atlanta.
May 5 » The Bay View massacre: A militia fires into a crowd of protesters in Milwaukee, killing seven.
May 29 » The pharmacist John Pemberton places his first advertisement for Coca-Cola, which appeared in The Atlanta Journal.
June 26 » Henri Moissan isolated elemental Fluorine for the first time.
November 14 » Friedrich Soennecken first developed the hole puncher, a type of office tool capable of punching small holes in paper.
Day of death June 11, 1977
The temperature on June 11, 1977 was between 8.5 °C and 20.1 °C and averaged 14.3 °C. There was 0.6 mm of rain during 0.4 hours. There was 10.0 hours of sunshine (60%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south. 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.
In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, December 19, 1977 to Friday, September 11, 1981 the cabinet Van Agt I, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA/KVP) as prime minister.
April 7 » German Federal prosecutor Siegfried Buback and his driver are shot by two Red Army Faction members while waiting at a red light.
April 22 » Optical fiber is first used to carry live telephone traffic.
August 12 » The first free flight of the Space ShuttleEnterprise.
September 10 » Hamida Djandoubi, convicted of torture and murder, is the last person to be executed by guillotine in France.
October 26 » Ali Maow Maalin, the last natural case of smallpox, develops a rash in Somalia. The World Health Organization and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention consider this date to be the anniversary of the eradication of smallpox, the most spectacular success of vaccination.
November 6 » The Kelly Barnes Dam, located above Toccoa Falls College near Toccoa, Georgia, fails, killing 39.
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