The temperature on September 23, 1889 was about 12.9 °C. The air pressure was 10 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 63%. Source: KNMI
January 15 » The Coca-Cola Company, then known as the Pemberton Medicine Company, is incorporated in Atlanta.
January 22 » Columbia Phonograph is formed in Washington, D.C.
June 26 » Bangui is founded by Albert Dolisie and Alfred Uzac in what was then the upper reaches of the French Congo.
July 8 » The first issue of The Wall Street Journal is published.
November 14 » Pioneering female journalist Nellie Bly (aka Elizabeth Cochrane) begins a successful attempt to travel around the world in less than 80 days. She completes the trip in 72 days.
November 15 » Brazil is declared a republic by Marshal Deodoro da Fonseca as Emperor Pedro II is deposed in a military coup.
Day of marriage October 4, 1912
The temperature on October 4, 1912 was between -2.9 °C and 12.5 °C and averaged 4.4 °C. There was 7.1 hours of sunshine (62%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest. Source: KNMI
January 5 » The 6th All-Russian Conference of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Prague Party Conference) opens. In the course of the conference, Vladimir Lenin and his supporters break from the rest of the party to form the Bolshevik movement.
January 8 » The African National Congress is founded, under the name South African Native National Congress (SANNC).
April 15 » The British passenger liner RMSTitanic sinks in the North Atlantic at 2:20a.m., two hours and forty minutes after hitting an iceberg. Only 710 of 2,227 passengers and crew on board survive.
July 8 » Henrique Mitchell de Paiva Couceiro leads an unsuccessful royalist attack against the First Portuguese Republic in Chaves.
October 7 » The Helsinki Stock Exchange sees its first transaction.
October 26 » First Balkan War: The Ottomans lose the cities of Thessaloniki and Skopje.
Day of death August 30, 1966
The temperature on August 30, 1966 was between 11.1 °C and 19.1 °C and averaged 15.1 °C. There was 6.7 mm of rain during 1.9 hours. There was 5.2 hours of sunshine (38%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
January 10 » Tashkent Declaration, a peace agreement between India and Pakistan signed that resolved the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965.
February 2 » Pakistan suggests a six-point agenda with Kashmir after the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965.
July 30 » England defeats West Germany to win the 1966 FIFA World Cup at Wembley Stadium after extra time.
October 15 » The Black Panther Party is created by Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale.
October 21 » A colliery spoil tip collapses on the village of Aberfan in Wales, killing 144 people, mostly schoolchildren.
December 5 » The musical I Do! I Do!, starring Mary Martin and Robert Preston opens at the 46th Street Theatre, in New York City, and closes on June 15, 1968, after 560 performances.
Day of burial September 3, 1966
The temperature on September 3, 1966 was between 13.4 °C and 19.5 °C and averaged 15.8 °C. There was 3.9 hours of sunshine (29%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
March 4 » A Canadian Pacific Air Lines DC-8-43 explodes on landing at Tokyo International Airport, killing 64 people.
July 15 » Vietnam War: The United States and South Vietnam begin Operation Hastings to push the North Vietnamese out of the Vietnamese Demilitarized Zone.
September 8 » The landmark American science fiction television series Star Trek premieres with its first-aired episode, "The Man Trap".
October 5 » A reactor at the Enrico Fermi Nuclear Generating Station near Detroit suffers a partial meltdown.
October 22 » The Supremes become the first all-female music group to attain a No. 1 selling album (The Supremes A' Go-Go).
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