The temperature on October 4, 1893 was about 9.3 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The airpressure was 74 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 93%. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from August 21, 1891 to May 9, 1894 the cabinet Van Tienhoven, with Mr. G. van Tienhoven (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
January 13 » U.S. Marines land in Honolulu, Hawaii from the USSBoston to prevent the queen from abrogating the Bayonet Constitution.
June 5 » The trial of Lizzie Borden for the murder of her father and step-mother begins in New Bedford, Massachusetts.
September 28 » Foundation of the Portuguese football club FC Porto.
November 7 » Women's suffrage: Women in the U.S. state of Colorado are granted the right to vote, the second state to do so.
November 12 » Abdur Rahman Khan accepts the Durand Line as the border between Afghanistan and the British Raj.
December 23 » The opera Hansel and Gretel by Engelbert Humperdinck is first performed.
Day of marriage May 5, 1927
The temperature on May 5, 1927 was between 10.6 °C and 25.0 °C and averaged 17.4 °C. There was 1.5 mm of rain. There was 8.4 hours of sunshine (56%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east. Source: KNMI
February 23 » German theoretical physicist Werner Heisenberg writes a letter to fellow physicist Wolfgang Pauli, in which he describes his uncertainty principle for the first time.
May 26 » The last Ford Model T rolls off the assembly line after a production run of 15,007,003 vehicles.
June 26 » The Cyclone roller coaster opens on Coney Island.
August 1 » The Nanchang Uprising marks the first significant battle in the Chinese Civil War between the Kuomintang and Chinese Communist Party. This day is commemorated as the anniversary of the founding of the People's Liberation Army.
August 7 » The Peace Bridge opens between Fort Erie, Ontario and Buffalo, New York.
October 6 » Opening of The Jazz Singer, the first prominent "talkie" movie.
Day of death October 4, 1989
The temperature on October 4, 1989 was between 2.6 °C and 15.8 °C and averaged 9.3 °C. There was 9.1 hours of sunshine (79%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, November 4, 1986 to Tuesday, November 7, 1989 the cabinet Lubbers II, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, November 7, 1989 to Monday, August 22, 1994 the cabinet Lubbers III, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
January 8 » Kegworth air disaster: British Midland Flight 92, a Boeing 737-400, crashes into the M1 motorway, killing 47 of the 126 people on board.
April 2 » Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev arrives in Havana, Cuba, to meet with Fidel Castro in an attempt to mend strained relations.
April 21 » Tiananmen Square protests of 1989: In Beijing, around 100,000 students gather in Tiananmen Square to commemorate Chinese reform leader Hu Yaobang.
July 17 » Holy See–Poland relations are restored.
July 19 » United Airlines Flight 232 crashes in Sioux City, Iowa killing 111.
November 17 » Cold War: Velvet Revolution begins: In Czechoslovakia, a student demonstration in Prague is quelled by riot police. This sparks an uprising aimed at overthrowing the communist government (it succeeds on December 29).
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