The temperature on January 5, 1885 was about -0.1 °C. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the south-southeast. The airpressure was 76 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.
January 26 » Troops loyal to The Mahdi conquer Khartoum, killing the Governor-General Charles George Gordon.
April 24 » American sharpshooter Annie Oakley is hired by Nate Salsbury to be a part of Buffalo Bill's Wild West.
June 17 » The Statue of Liberty arrives in New York Harbor.
July 6 » Louis Pasteur successfully tests his vaccine against rabies on Joseph Meister, a boy who was bitten by a rabid dog.
August 29 » Gottlieb Daimler patents the world's first internal combustion motorcycle, the Reitwagen.
December 28 » Indian National Congress, a political party of India, is founded in Bombay Presidency, British India.
Day of death September 9, 1962
The temperature on September 9, 1962 was between 4.8 °C and 18.0 °C and averaged 11.8 °C. There was 3.8 hours of sunshine (29%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
May 24 » Project Mercury: American astronaut Scott Carpenter orbits the Earth three times in the Aurora 7 space capsule.
August 15 » James Joseph Dresnok defects to North Korea after running across the Korean Demilitarized Zone. Dresnok died in 2016.
September 18 » Burundi, Jamaica, Rwanda and Trinidad and Tobago are admitted to the United Nations.
October 8 » Der Spiegel publishes an article disclosing the sorry state of the Bundeswehr, and is soon accused of treason.
October 9 » A visible light-emitting diode (LED) is first demonstrated in Syracuse, New York.
November 24 » Cold War: The West Berlin branch of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany forms a separate party, the Socialist Unity Party of West Berlin.
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