The temperature on June 27, 1890 was about 17.5 °C. The air pressure was 3 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 73%. Source: KNMI
April 14 » The Pan-American Union is founded by the First International Conference of American States in Washington, D.C.
June 1 » The United States Census Bureau begins using Herman Hollerith's tabulating machine to count census returns.
September 24 » The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints officially renounces polygamy.
October 12 » Uddevalla Suffrage Association is formed.
December 15 » Hunkpapa Lakota leader Sitting Bull is killed on Standing Rock Indian Reservation, leading to the Wounded Knee Massacre.
December 22 » Cornwallis Valley Railway begins operation between Kentville and Kingsport, Nova Scotia.
Day of marriage September 24, 1914
The temperature on September 24, 1914 was between 4.6 °C and 19.7 °C and averaged 11.6 °C. There was 9.8 hours of sunshine (81%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from August 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
February 26 » HMHSBritannic, sister to the RMSTitanic, is launched at Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast.
March 7 » Prince William of Wied arrives in Albania to begin his reign as King.
August 23 » World War I: Japan declares war on Germany.
August 26 » World War I: The German colony of Togoland surrenders to French and British forces after a 20-day campaign.
October 5 » World War I: An aircraft successfully destroys another aircraft with gunfire.
December 8 » World War I: A squadron of Britain's Royal Navy defeats the Imperial German East Asia Squadron in the Battle of the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic.
Day of death March 8, 1961
The temperature on March 8, 1961 was between 1.9 °C and 5.7 °C and averaged 3.7 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. Source: KNMI
January 20 » John F. Kennedy is inaugurated the 35th President of the United States of America, becoming the second youngest man to take the office, and the first Catholic.
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.
May 4 » Malcolm Ross and Victor Prather attain a new altitude record for manned balloon flight ascending in the Strato-Lab V open gondola to 113,740 feet (34.67km).
May 5 » Alan Shepard becomes the first American to travel into outer space, on a sub-orbital flight.
May 19 » At Silchar Railway Station, Assam, 11 Bengalis die when police open fire on protesters demanding state recognition of Bengali language in the Bengali Language Movement.
August 1 » U.S. Defense Secretary Robert McNamara orders the creation of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), the nation's first centralized military espionage organization.
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