The temperature on September 21, 1889 was about 9.5 °C. There was 4 mm of rain. The air pressure was 10 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 73%. Source: KNMI
February 11 » Meiji Constitution of Japan is adopted.
March 31 » The Eiffel Tower is officially opened.
May 6 » The Eiffel Tower is officially opened to the public at the Universal Exposition in Paris.
June 26 » Bangui is founded by Albert Dolisie and Alfred Uzac in what was then the upper reaches of the French Congo.
June 29 » Hyde Park and several other Illinois townships vote to be annexed by Chicago, forming the largest United States city in area and second largest in population at the time.
July 8 » The first issue of The Wall Street Journal is published.
Day of death May 21, 1958
The temperature on May 21, 1958 was between 6.8 °C and 14.6 °C and averaged 10.7 °C. There was 4.6 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 26 » The African Regroupment Party is launched at a meeting in Paris.
March 26 » The United States Army launches Explorer 3.
May 9 » Alfred Hitchcock's film Vertigo has world premiere in San Francisco.
May 13 » Ben Carlin becomes the first (and only) person to circumnavigate the world by amphibious vehicle, having travelled over 17,000 kilometres (11,000mi) by sea and 62,000 kilometres (39,000mi) by land during a ten-year journey.
October 7 » The 1958 Pakistani coup d'état inaugurates a prolonged period of military rule.
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