The temperature on March 9, 1884 was about 1.3 °C. There was 2 mm of rain. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 100%. 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 1 » The first volume (A to Ant) of the Oxford English Dictionary is published.
May 31 » The arrival at Plymouth of Tāwhiao, King of Maoris, to claim the protection of Queen Victoria.
July 3 » Dow Jones & Company publishes its first stock average.
August 5 » The cornerstone for the Statue of Liberty is laid on Bedloe's Island (now Liberty Island) in New York Harbor.
October 22 » The International Meridian Conference designates the Royal Observatory, Greenwich as the world's prime meridian.
November 1 » The Gaelic Athletic Association is set up in Hayes's Hotel in Thurles, County Tipperary.
Day of marriage October 18, 1906
The temperature on October 18, 1906 was between 7.6 °C and 16.4 °C and averaged 11.6 °C. There was 4.4 hours of sunshine (42%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from August 17, 1905 to February 11, 1908 the cabinet De Meester, with Mr. Th. de Meester (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
March 10 » The Courrières mine disaster, Europe's worst ever, kills 1099 miners in northern France.
April 7 » Mount Vesuvius erupts and devastates Naples.
May 22 » The Wright brothers are granted U.S. patent number 821,393 for their "Flying-Machine".
September 18 » The 1906 Hong Kong typhoon kills an estimated 10,000 people.
October 11 » San Francisco sparks a diplomatic crisis between the United States and Japan by ordering segregated schools for Japanese students.
December 15 » The London Underground's Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway opens.
Day of death May 6, 1961
The temperature on May 6, 1961 was between 10.0 °C and 17.1 °C and averaged 12.8 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain during 0.4 hours. There was 6.9 hours of sunshine (45%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the 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.
August 25 » President Jânio Quadros of Brazil resigns after just seven months in power, initiating a political crisis that culminates in a military coup in 1964.
September 16 » Typhoon Nancy, with possibly the strongest winds ever measured in a tropical cyclone, makes landfall in Osaka, Japan, killing 173 people.
October 27 » NASA tests the first Saturn I rocket in Mission Saturn-Apollo 1.
November 18 » United States President John F. Kennedy sends 18,000 military advisors to South Vietnam.
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