The temperature on May 15, 1885 was about 10.3 °C. The air pressure was 3 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the north-northwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 47%. 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 5 » King Leopold II of Belgium establishes the Congo as a personal possession.
February 18 » Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain is published in the United States.
March 3 » The American Telephone & Telegraph Company is incorporated in New York.
April 3 » Gottlieb Daimler is granted a German patent for his engine design.
July 23 » President Ulysses S. Grant dies of throat cancer.
September 29 » The first practical public electric tramway in the world is opened in Blackpool, England.
Day of death October 10, 1952
The temperature on October 10, 1952 was between 5.6 °C and 12.8 °C and averaged 8.2 °C. There was 3.6 mm of rain during 2.7 hours. There was 7.0 hours of sunshine (63%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. Source: KNMI
February 15 » King George VI of the United Kingdom is buried in St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle.
February 26 » Vincent Massey is sworn in as the first Canadian-born Governor General of Canada.
April 15 » First flight of the Boeing B-52 Stratofortress.
May 7 » The concept of the integrated circuit, the basis for all modern computers, is first published by Geoffrey Dummer.
June 21 » The Philippine School of Commerce, through a republic act, is converted to Philippine College of Commerce, later to be the Polytechnic University of the Philippines.
November 1 » Nuclear weapons testing: The United States successfully detonates Ivy Mike, the first thermonuclear device, at the Eniwetok atoll. The explosion had a yield of ten megatons TNT equivalent.
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