The temperature on August 28, 1892 was about 17.3 °C. There was 3 mm of rain. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 83%. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from August 21, 1891 to May 9, 1894 the cabinet Van Tienhoven, with Mr. G. van Tienhoven (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
January 1 » Ellis Island begins processing immigrants into the United States.
June 30 » The Homestead Strike begins near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
July 7 » The Katipunan is established, the discovery of which by Spanish authorities initiated the Philippine Revolution.
July 8 » St. John's, Newfoundland is devastated in the Great Fire of 1892.
November 12 » Pudge Heffelfinger becomes the first professional American football player on record, participating in his first paid game for the Allegheny Athletic Association.
December 18 » Premiere performance of The Nutcracker by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
Day of death May 7, 1961
The temperature on May 7, 1961 was between 8.5 °C and 15.6 °C and averaged 12.3 °C. There was 2.3 mm of rain during 2.0 hours. There was 10.6 hours of sunshine (70%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
March 9 » Sputnik 9 successfully launches, carrying a dog and a human dummy, and demonstrating that the Soviet Union was ready to begin human spaceflight.
April 8 » A large explosion on board the MVDara in the Persian Gulf kills 238.
September 11 » Hurricane Carla strikes the Texas coast as a Category 4 hurricane, the second strongest storm ever to hit the state.
September 18 » CONCACAF is established as the governing body for association football in North America, Central America and the Caribbean.
October 1 » East and West Cameroon merge to form the Federal Republic of Cameroon.
November 11 » Thirteen Italian Air Force servicemen, deployed to the Congo as a part of the UN peacekeeping force, are massacred by a mob in Kindu.
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