The temperature on September 30, 1890 was about 17.8 °C. The air pressure was 14 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 72%. Source: KNMI
January 25 » Nellie Bly completes her round-the-world journey in 72 days.
August 6 » At Auburn Prison in New York, murderer William Kemmler becomes the first person to be executed by electric chair.
August 7 » Anna Månsdotter became the last woman to be executed in Sweden for the 1889 Yngsjö murder.
September 12 » Salisbury, Rhodesia, is founded.
December 15 » Hunkpapa Lakota leader Sitting Bull is killed on Standing Rock Indian Reservation, leading to the Wounded Knee Massacre.
December 29 » Wounded Knee Massacre on Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, 300 Lakota are killed by the United States 7th Cavalry Regiment.
Day of marriage May 18, 1912
The temperature on May 18, 1912 was between 4.0 °C and 16.3 °C and averaged 11.2 °C. There was 7.0 hours of sunshine (44%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
April 14 » The British passenger liner RMSTitanic hits an iceberg in the North Atlantic at 23:40 (sinks morning of April 15th).
May 4 » Italy occupies the Greek island of Rhodes.
September 25 » Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism is founded in New York City.
October 26 » First Balkan War: The Ottomans lose the cities of Thessaloniki and Skopje.
November 12 » King George I of Greece makes a triumphal entry into Thessaloniki after its liberation from 482 years of Ottoman rule.
November 28 » Albania declares its independence from the Ottoman Empire.
Day of death March 19, 1960
The temperature on March 19, 1960 was between 0.2 °C and 8.2 °C and averaged 3.6 °C. There was 7.1 hours of sunshine (59%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. Source: KNMI
January 21 » Avianca Flight 671 crashes at Montego Bay, Jamaica airport, killing 37 people.
April 1 » The TIROS-1 satellite transmits the first television picture from space.
April 25 » The United States Navy submarine USSTriton completes the first submerged circumnavigation of the globe.
May 22 » The Great Chilean earthquake, measuring 9.5 on the moment magnitude scale, hits southern Chile, becoming the most powerful earthquake ever recorded.
June 30 » Belgian Congo gains independence as Republic of the Congo (Léopoldville).
December 14 » Convention against Discrimination in Education of UNESCO is adopted.
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