The temperature on January 13, 1890 was about 7.4 °C. There was 2 mm of rain. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 100%. Source: KNMI
January 22 » The United Mine Workers of America is founded in Columbus, Ohio.
August 6 » At Auburn Prison in New York, murderer William Kemmler becomes the first person to be executed by electric chair.
September 25 » The United States Congress establishes Sequoia National Park.
October 1 » Yosemite National Park is established by the U.S. Congress.
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 death August 11, 1954
The temperature on August 11, 1954 was between 11.9 °C and 17.7 °C and averaged 15.0 °C. There was 7.5 mm of rain during 2.0 hours. There was 4.1 hours of sunshine (27%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
February 13 » Frank Selvy becomes the only NCAA Division I basketball player ever to score 100 points in a single game.
March 13 » The Battle of Điện Biên Phủ begins with an artillery barrage by Viet Minh forces under Võ Nguyên Giáp; Viet Minh victory lead to the end of the First Indochina War and French withdrawal from Vietnam.
April 26 » The Geneva Conference, an effort to restore peace in Indochina and Korea, begins.
September 17 » The novel Lord of the Flies by William Golding is first published.
September 29 » The convention establishing CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research) is signed.
December 23 » First successful kidney transplant is performed by J. Hartwell Harrison and Joseph Murray.
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