The temperature on April 19, 1895 was about 10.5 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 95%. Source: KNMI
January 13 » First Italo-Ethiopian War: the war's opening battle, the Battle of Coatit, occurs; it is an Italian victory.
February 24 » Revolution breaks out in Baire, a town near Santiago de Cuba, beginning the Cuban War of Independence, that ends with the Spanish–American War in 1898.
March 22 » Before the Société pour L'Encouragement à l'Industrie, brothers Auguste and Louis Lumière demonstrate movie film technology publicly for the first time.
April 24 » Joshua Slocum, the first person to sail single-handedly around the world, sets sail from Boston, Massachusetts aboard the sloop "Spray".
October 4 » Horace Rawlins wins the first U.S. Open Men's Golf Championship.
December 28 » Wilhelm Röntgen publishes a paper detailing his discovery of a new type of radiation, which later will be known as x-rays.
Day of marriage November 17, 1927
The temperature on November 17, 1927 was between 0.7 °C and 7.9 °C and averaged 4.7 °C. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. Source: KNMI
January 27 » Ibn Saud takes the title of King of Nejd.
April 19 » Mae West is sentenced to ten days in jail for obscenity for her play Sex.
May 9 » Old Parliament House, Canberra officially opens.
June 13 » Aviator Charles Lindbergh receives a ticker tape parade down 5th Avenue in New York City.
September 22 » Jack Dempsey loses the "Long Count" boxing match to Gene Tunney.
November 21 » Columbine Mine massacre: Striking coal miners are allegedly attacked with machine guns by a detachment of state police dressed in civilian clothes.
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