The temperature on March 10, 1888 was about 10.3 °C. The air pressure was 63 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 74 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 83%. 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.
In The Netherlands , there was from April 21, 1888 to August 21, 1891 the cabinet Mackay, with Mr. A. baron Mackay (AR) as prime minister.
May 16 » Nikola Tesla delivers a lecture describing the equipment which will allow efficient generation and use of alternating currents to transmit electric power over long distances.
August 31 » Mary Ann Nichols is murdered. She is the first of Jack the Ripper's confirmed victims.
September 8 » Isaac Peral's submarine is first tested.
September 30 » Jack the Ripper kills his third and fourth victims, Elizabeth Stride and Catherine Eddowes.
October 17 » Thomas Edison files a patent for the Optical Phonograph (the first movie).
December 22 » The Christmas Meeting of 1888, considered to be the official start of the Faroese independence movement.
Day of marriage February 16, 1911
The temperature on February 16, 1911 was between -1.5 °C and 7.4 °C and averaged 3.6 °C. There was 6.2 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
January 5 » Kappa Alpha Psi, the world's third oldest and largest black fraternity, is founded at Indiana University.
May 30 » At the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, the first Indianapolis 500 ends with Ray Harroun in his Marmon Wasp becoming the first winner of the 500-mile auto race.
October 5 » The Kowloon–Canton Railway commences service.
November 3 » Chevrolet officially enters the automobile market in competition with the Ford Model T.
November 17 » Omega Psi Phi fraternity was founded on the campus of Howard University in Washington, D.C.
December 9 » A mine explosion near Briceville, Tennessee, kills 84 miners despite rescue efforts led by the United States Bureau of Mines.
Day of death May 15, 1969
The temperature on May 15, 1969 was between 10.8 °C and 19.2 °C and averaged 14.4 °C. There was 1.9 mm of rain during 0.5 hours. There was 4.0 hours of sunshine (26%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
August 9 » Followers of Charles Manson murder pregnant actress Sharon Tate (wife of Roman Polanski), coffee heiress Abigail Folger, Polish actor Wojciech Frykowski, men's hairstylist Jay Sebring and recent high-school graduate Steven Parent.
August 10 » A day after murdering Sharon Tate and four others, members of Charles Manson's cult kill Leno and Rosemary LaBianca.
September 26 » Abbey Road, the last recorded album by The Beatles, is released.
November 21 » The first permanent ARPANET link is established between UCLA and SRI.
December 4 » Black Panther Party members Fred Hampton and Mark Clark are shot and killed during a raid by 14 Chicago police officers.
December 8 » Olympic Airways Flight 954 strikes a mountain outside of Keratea, Greece, killing 90 people in the worst crash of a Douglas DC-6 in history.
Day of burial May 19, 1969
The temperature on May 19, 1969 was between 4.8 °C and 9.3 °C and averaged 6.9 °C. There was 9.6 mm of rain during 6.5 hours. There was 2.0 hours of sunshine (13%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. Source: KNMI
June 23 » IBM announces that effective January 1970 it will price its software and services separately from hardware thus creating the modern software industry.
August 15 » The Woodstock Music & Art Fair opens in upstate New York, featuring some of the top rock musicians of the era.
September 14 » The US Selective Service selects September 14 as the First Draft Lottery date.
November 12 » Vietnam War: Independent investigative journalist Seymour Hersh breaks the story of the My Lai Massacre.
November 14 » Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 12, the second crewed mission to the surface of the Moon.
December 24 » Nigerian troops capture Umuahia, the Biafran capital.
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