The temperature on July 8, 1890 was about 13.1 °C. The air pressure was 13 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 77%. Source: KNMI
March 4 » The longest bridge in Great Britain, the Forth Bridge in Scotland, measuring 1,710 feet (520m) long, is opened by the Duke of Rothesay, later King Edward VII.
July 3 » Idaho is admitted as the 43rd U.S. state.
October 11 » In Washington, D.C., the Daughters of the American Revolution is founded.
November 29 » The Meiji Constitution goes into effect in Japan, and the first Diet convenes.
December 22 » Cornwallis Valley Railway begins operation between Kentville and Kingsport, Nova Scotia.
December 30 » Following the Wounded Knee Massacre, the United States Army and Lakota warriors face off in the Drexel Mission Fight.
Day of marriage December 9, 1921
The temperature on December 9, 1921 was between 0.2 °C and 9.7 °C and averaged 6.2 °C. There was 2.2 mm of rain. There was 5.2 hours of sunshine (66%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from September 9, 1918 to September 18, 1922 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck I, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
February 15 » Kingdom of Romania establishes its legation in Helsinki.
February 21 » Rezā Shāh takes control of Tehran during a successful coup.
March 21 » The New Economic Policy is implemented by the Bolshevik Party in response to the economic failure as a result of war communism.
April 11 » Emir Abdullah establishes the first centralised government in the newly created British protectorate of Transjordan.
August 3 » Major League Baseball Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis confirms the ban of the eight Chicago Black Sox, the day after they were acquitted by a Chicago court.
October 21 » President Warren G. Harding delivers the first speech by a sitting U.S. President against lynching in the deep South.
Day of death May 3, 1973
The temperature on May 3, 1973 was between 6.7 °C and 17.8 °C and averaged 11.8 °C. There was 21.5 mm of rain during 2.8 hours. There was 3.9 hours of sunshine (26%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east. 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.
April 2 » Launch of the LexisNexis computerized legal research service.
May 8 » A 71-day standoff between federal authorities and the American Indian Movement members occupying the Pine Ridge Reservation at Wounded Knee, South Dakota ends with the surrender of the militants.
August 8 » Kim Dae-jung, a South Korean politician and later president of South Korea, is kidnapped.
September 23 » Argentine general election: Juan Perón returns to power in Argentina.
November 8 » The right ear of John Paul Getty III is delivered to a newspaper outlet along with a ransom note, convincing his father to pay US$2.9 million.
December 9 » British and Irish authorities sign the Sunningdale Agreement in an attempt to establish a power-sharing Northern Ireland Executive and a cross-border Council of Ireland.
Day of burial May 8, 1973
The temperature on May 8, 1973 was between 4.1 °C and 12.3 °C and averaged 8.4 °C. There was 0.8 mm of rain during 0.3 hours. There was 5.6 hours of sunshine (37%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. 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 8 » Watergate scandal: The trial of seven men accused of illegal entry into Democratic Party headquarters at Watergate begins.
February 27 » The American Indian Movement occupies Wounded Knee in protest of the federal government.
March 1 » Black September storms the Saudi embassy in Khartoum, Sudan, resulting in the assassination of three Western hostages.
April 6 » Launch of Pioneer 11 spacecraft.
July 29 » Driver Roger Williamson is killed during the Dutch Grand Prix, after a suspected tire failure causes his car to pitch into the barriers at high speed.
November 25 » Georgios Papadopoulos, head of the military Regime of the Colonels in Greece, is ousted in a hardliners' coup led by Brigadier General Dimitrios Ioannidis.
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