The temperature on August 26, 1904 was between 6.9 °C and 17.9 °C and averaged 13.6 °C. There was 0.4 hours of sunshine (3%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
January 23 » Ålesund Fire: the Norwegian coastal town Ålesund is devastated by fire, leaving 10,000 people homeless and one person dead. Kaiser Wilhelm II funds the rebuilding of the town in Jugendstil style.
April 8 » The French Third Republic and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland sign the Entente cordiale.
May 4 » The United States begins construction of the Panama Canal.
June 15 » A fire aboard the steamboat SSGeneral Slocum in New York City's East River kills 1,000.
November 16 » English engineer John Ambrose Fleming receives a patent for the thermionic valve (vacuum tube).
December 3 » The Jovian moon Himalia is discovered by Charles Dillon Perrine at California's Lick Observatory.
Day of death February 9, 1990
The temperature on February 9, 1990 was between 3.8 °C and 10.2 °C and averaged 6.7 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 4.0 hours of sunshine (42%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, November 7, 1989 to Monday, August 22, 1994 the cabinet Lubbers III, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
January 1 » David Dinkins is sworn in as New York City's first black mayor.
February 14 » Ninety-two people are killed when Indian Airlines Flight 605 crashes in Bangalore, India.
April 9 » An IRA bombing in County Down, Northern Ireland, kills three members of the UDR.
August 8 » Iraq occupies Kuwait and the state is annexed to Iraq. This would lead to the Gulf War shortly afterward.
September 16 » The railroad between the People's Republic of China and Kazakhstan is completed at Dostyk, adding a sizable link to the concept of the Eurasian Land Bridge.
November 5 » Rabbi Meir Kahane, founder of the far-right Kach movement, is shot dead after a speech at a New York City hotel.
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