The temperature on April 10, 1890 was about 8.5 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 57%. Source: KNMI
January 25 » Nellie Bly completes her round-the-world journey in 72 days.
March 4 » The longest bridge in Great Britain, the Forth Bridge in Scotland, measuring 1,710 feet (520m) long, is opened by the Duke of Rothesay, later King Edward VII.
March 20 » Prime Minister of the German Empire Otto von Bismarck is dismissed by Emperor Wilhelm II.
June 1 » The United States Census Bureau begins using Herman Hollerith's tabulating machine to count census returns.
August 6 » At Auburn Prison in New York, murderer William Kemmler becomes the first person to be executed by electric chair.
November 4 » City and South London Railway: London's first deep-level tube railway opens between King William Street and Stockwell.
Day of death August 2, 1962
The temperature on August 2, 1962 was between 9.9 °C and 21.6 °C and averaged 16.1 °C. There was 4.8 hours of sunshine (31%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. Source: KNMI
February 20 » Mercury program: While aboard Friendship 7, John Glenn becomes the first American to orbit the earth, making three orbits in four hours, 55 minutes.
March 2 » In Burma, the army led by General Ne Win seizes power in a coup d'état.
March 18 » The Évian Accords end the Algerian War of Independence, which had begun in 1954.
March 19 » Highly influential artist Bob Dylan releases his first album, Bob Dylan, for Columbia Records.
July 5 » The official independence of Algeria is proclaimed after an 8-year-long war with France.
November 11 » Kuwait's National Assembly ratifies the Constitution of Kuwait.
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