The temperature on January 25, 1895 was about 1.1 °C. There was 3 mm of rain. The airpressure was 74 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 92%. Source: KNMI
February 9 » William G. Morgan creates a game called Mintonette, which soon comes to be referred to as volleyball.
April 3 » The trial in the libel case brought by Oscar Wilde begins, eventually resulting in his imprisonment on charges of homosexuality.
April 17 » The Treaty of Shimonoseki between China and Japan is signed. This marks the end of the First Sino-Japanese War, and the defeated Qing Empire is forced to renounce its claims on Korea and to concede the southern portion of the Fengtien province, Taiwan and the Pescadores Islands to Japan.
April 24 » Joshua Slocum, the first person to sail single-handedly around the world, sets sail from Boston, Massachusetts aboard the sloop "Spray".
June 11 » Paris–Bordeaux–Paris, sometimes called the first automobile race in history or the "first motor race", takes place.
September 3 » John Brallier becomes the first openly professional American football player, when he was paid US$10 by David Berry, to play for the Latrobe Athletic Association in a 12-0 win over the Jeanette Athletic Association.
Day of marriage September 4, 1912
The temperature on September 4, 1912 was between 11.8 °C and 18.9 °C and averaged 14.0 °C. There was 6.3 mm of rain. There was 1.9 hours of sunshine (14%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
January 11 » Immigrant textile workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts, go on strike when wages are reduced in response to a mandated shortening of the work week.
June 4 » Massachusetts becomes the first state of the United States to set a minimum wage.
June 8 » Carl Laemmle incorporates Universal Pictures.
September 28 » Corporal Frank S. Scott of the United States Army becomes the first enlisted man to die in an airplane crash.
November 5 » Woodrow Wilson is elected the 28th President of the United States, defeating incumbent William Howard Taft.
December 19 » William Van Schaick, captain of the steamship General Slocum which caught fire and killed over one thousand people, is pardoned by U.S. President William Howard Taft after 3⁄2 years in Sing Sing prison.
Day of death November 15, 1960
The temperature on November 15, 1960 was between 7.2 °C and 9.8 °C and averaged 8.4 °C. There was 10.3 mm of rain during 7.2 hours. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
January 21 » Avianca Flight 671 crashes at Montego Bay, Jamaica airport, killing 37 people.
February 3 » British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan speaks of "a wind of change", signalling that his Government was likely to support decolonisation.
March 5 » Indonesian President Sukarno dismissed the Dewan Perwakilan Rakyat (DPR), 1955 democratically elected parliament, and replaced with DPR-GR, the parliament of his own selected members.
April 8 » The Netherlands and West Germany sign an agreement to negotiate the return of German land annexed by the Dutch in return for 280million German marks as Wiedergutmachung.
April 27 » Togo gains independence from French-administered UN trusteeship.
July 11 » To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is first published, in the United States.
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