The temperature on May 28, 1888 was about 11.2 °C. The air pressure was 17 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the north-northeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 76%. 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.
March 20 » The premiere of the very first Romani language operetta is staged in Moscow, Russia.
March 23 » In England, The Football League, the world's oldest professional association football league, meets for the first time.
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.
June 15 » Crown Prince Wilhelm becomes Kaiser Wilhelm II; he will be the last Emperor of the German Empire. Due to the death of his predecessors Wilhelm I and Frederick III, 1888 is the Year of the Three Emperors.
August 31 » Mary Ann Nichols is murdered. She is the first of Jack the Ripper's confirmed victims.
October 17 » Thomas Edison files a patent for the Optical Phonograph (the first movie).
Day of marriage June 13, 1911
The temperature on June 13, 1911 was between 5.3 °C and 17.0 °C and averaged 11.6 °C. There was 5.2 mm of rain. There was 7.3 hours of sunshine (44%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. Source: KNMI
January 3 » A gun battle in the East End of London left two dead and sparked a political row over the involvement of then-Home Secretary Winston Churchill.
January 14 » Roald Amundsen's South Pole expedition makes landfall on the eastern edge of the Ross Ice Shelf.
January 26 » Glenn Curtiss flies the first successful American seaplane.
April 2 » The Australian Bureau of Statistics conducts the country's first national census.
May 31 » The President of Mexico Porfirio Díaz flees the country during the Mexican Revolution.
June 22 » George V and Mary of Teck are crowned King and Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
Day of death December 25, 1973
The temperature on December 25, 1973 was between 2.2 °C and 5.4 °C and averaged 4.1 °C. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, July 20, 1972 to Friday, May 11, 1973 the cabinet Biesheuvel II, with Mr. B.W. Biesheuvel (ARP) as prime minister.
In The Netherlands , there was from Friday, May 11, 1973 to Monday, December 19, 1977 the cabinet Den Uyl, with Drs. J.M. den Uyl (PvdA) as prime minister.
January 14 » Elvis Presley's concert Aloha from Hawaii is broadcast live via satellite, and sets the record as the most watched broadcast by an individual entertainer in television history.
January 22 » The Supreme Court of the United States delivers its decisions in Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton, legalizing elective abortion in all fifty states.
April 3 » Martin Cooper of Motorola makes the first handheld mobile phone call to Joel S. Engel of Bell Labs.
April 4 » A Lockheed C-141 Starlifter, dubbed the Hanoi Taxi, makes the last flight of Operation Homecoming.
September 18 » The Bahamas, East Germany and West Germany are admitted to the United Nations.
October 16 » Henry Kissinger and Lê Đức Thọ are awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
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