The temperature on July 16, 1890 was about 23.7 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the north-northwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 51%. Source: KNMI
January 1 » Eritrea is consolidated into a colony by the Italian government.
July 3 » Idaho is admitted as the 43rd U.S. state.
July 10 » Wyoming is admitted as the 44th U.S. state.
October 12 » Uddevalla Suffrage Association is formed.
November 4 » City and South London Railway: London's first deep-level tube railway opens between King William Street and Stockwell.
December 22 » Cornwallis Valley Railway begins operation between Kentville and Kingsport, Nova Scotia.
Day of marriage July 18, 1917
The temperature on July 18, 1917 was between 13.9 °C and 19.4 °C and averaged 17.5 °C. There was 8.6 mm of rain. There was 0.5 hours of sunshine (3%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. 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.
March 15 » Tsar Nicholas II of Russia abdicates the Russian throne ending the 304-year Romanov dynasty.
May 19 » The Norwegian football club Rosenborg BK is founded.
June 7 » World War I: Battle of Messines: Allied soldiers detonate a series of mines underneath German trenches at Messines Ridge, killing 10,000 German troops.
July 25 » Sir Robert Borden introduces the first income tax in Canada as a "temporary" measure (lowest bracket is 4% and highest is 25%).
November 2 » The Balfour Declaration proclaims British support for the "establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people" with the clear understanding "that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities".
December 18 » The resolution containing the language of the Eighteenth Amendment to enact Prohibition is passed by the United States Congress.
Day of death July 31, 1966
The temperature on July 31, 1966 was between 10.8 °C and 17.9 °C and averaged 14.0 °C. There was 39.2 mm of rain during 8.0 hours. There was 5.0 hours of sunshine (32%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
January 17 » Palomares incident: A B-52 bomber collides with a KC-135 Stratotanker over Spain, killing seven airmen, and dropping three 70-kiloton nuclear bombs near the town of Palomares and another one into the sea.
July 8 » King Mwambutsa IV Bangiriceng of Burundi is deposed by his son Prince Charles Ndizi.
July 10 » The Chicago Freedom Movement, led by Martin Luther King, Jr., holds a rally at Soldier Field in Chicago. As many as 60,000 people attend.
July 15 » Vietnam War: The United States and South Vietnam begin Operation Hastings to push the North Vietnamese out of the Vietnamese Demilitarized Zone.
August 16 » Vietnam War: The House Un-American Activities Committee begins investigations of Americans who have aided the Viet Cong. The committee intends to introduce legislation making these activities illegal. Anti-war demonstrators disrupt the meeting and 50 people are arrested.
November 8 » U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs into law an antitrust exemption allowing the National Football League to merge with the upstart American Football League.
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