The temperature on November 28, 1888 was about 8.2 °C. The air pressure was 12 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 97%. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from April 23, 1884 to April 21, 1888 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief) as prime minister.
In The Netherlands , there was from April 21, 1888 to August 21, 1891 the cabinet Mackay, with Mr. A. baron Mackay (AR) as prime minister.
April 6 » Thomas Green Clemson dies, bequeathing his estate to the State of South Carolina to establish Clemson Agricultural College.
June 29 » George Edward Gouraud records Handel's Israel in Egypt onto a phonograph cylinder, thought for many years to be the oldest known recording of music.
July 15 » The stratovolcano Mount Bandai erupts killing approximately 500 people, in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan.
September 22 » The first issue of National Geographic Magazine is published.
October 14 » Louis Le Prince films the first motion picture, Roundhay Garden Scene.
October 15 » The "From Hell" letter allegedly sent by Jack the Ripper is received by investigators.
Day of marriage May 29, 1914
The temperature on May 29, 1914 was between 6.9 °C and 13.8 °C and averaged 10.5 °C. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from August 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
August 5 » World War I: The German minelayer SSKönigin Luise lays a minefield about 40 miles (64km) off the Thames Estuary (Lowestoft). She is intercepted and sunk by the British light-cruiser HMSAmphion.
August 25 » World War I: The library of the Catholic University of Leuven is deliberately destroyed by the German Army. Hundreds of thousands of irreplaceable volumes and Gothic and Renaissance manuscripts are lost.
August 28 » World War I: German troops take the city of Namur in Belgium.
August 30 » World War I: Germans defeat the Russians in the Battle of Tannenberg.
September 1 » The last known passenger pigeon, a female named Martha, dies in captivity in the Cincinnati Zoo.
November 1 » World War I: The Australian Imperial Force (AIF) departed by ship in a single convoy from Albany, Western Australia bound for Egypt.
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