The temperature on July 27, 1888 was about 19.9 °C. The air pressure was 10 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 64%. 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 3 » The first of eleven unsolved brutal murders of women committed in or near the impoverished Whitechapel district in the East End of London, occurs.
May 12 » In Southeast Asia, the North Borneo Chartered Company's territories become the British protectorate of North Borneo.
May 16 » Nikola Tesla delivers a lecture describing the equipment which will allow efficient generation and use of alternating currents to transmit electric power over long distances.
August 5 » Bertha Benz drives from Mannheim to Pforzheim and back in the first long distance automobile trip, commemorated as the Bertha Benz Memorial Route since 2008.
October 15 » The "From Hell" letter allegedly sent by Jack the Ripper is received by investigators.
October 29 » The Convention of Constantinople is signed, guaranteeing free maritime passage through the Suez Canal during war and peace.
Day of marriage September 4, 1906
The temperature on September 4, 1906 was between 12.1 °C and 27.7 °C and averaged 19.0 °C. There was 9.9 hours of sunshine (74%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from August 17, 1905 to February 11, 1908 the cabinet De Meester, with Mr. Th. de Meester (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
February 10 » HMSDreadnought, the first of a revolutionary new breed of battleships is christened and launched by King Edward VII.
April 7 » The Algeciras Conference gives France and Spain control over Morocco.
May 22 » The Wright brothers are granted U.S. patent number 821,393 for their "Flying-Machine".
July 11 » Murder of Grace Brown by Chester Gillette in the United States, inspiration for Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy.
September 7 » Alberto Santos-Dumont flies his 14-bis aircraft at Bagatelle, France for the first time successfully.
September 18 » The 1906 Hong Kong typhoon kills an estimated 10,000 people.
Day of death May 16, 1958
The temperature on May 16, 1958 was between 6.2 °C and 10.5 °C and averaged 8.5 °C. There was 24.7 mm of rain during 15.9 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. Source: KNMI
February 21 » The CND symbol, aka peace symbol, commissioned by the Direct Action Committee in protest against the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment, is designed and completed by Gerald Holtom.
February 28 » A school bus in Floyd County, Kentucky hits a wrecker truck and plunges down an embankment into the rain-swollen Levisa Fork river. The driver and 26 children die in what remains one of the worst school bus accidents in U.S. history.
March 26 » The African Regroupment Party is launched at a meeting in Paris.
June 1 » Charles de Gaulle comes out of retirement to lead France by decree for six months.
October 2 » Guinea declares its independence from France.
November 28 » First successful flight of SM-65 Atlas; the first operational intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), developed by the United States and the first member of the Atlas rocket family.
Day of burial May 19, 1958
The temperature on May 19, 1958 was between 10.7 °C and 17.4 °C and averaged 13.3 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 0.1 hours. There was 2.7 hours of sunshine (17%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
January 13 » The Moroccan Army of Liberation ambushes a Spanish patrol in the Battle of Edchera.
July 7 » US President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the Alaska Statehood Act into law.
September 2 » United States Air Force C-130A-II is shot down by fighters over Yerevan in Armenia when it strays into Soviet airspace while conducting a sigint mission. All crew members are killed.
November 28 » Chad, the Republic of the Congo, and Gabon become autonomous republics within the French Community.
December 5 » Subscriber Trunk Dialling (STD) is inaugurated in the United Kingdom by Queen Elizabeth II when she speaks to the Lord Provost in a call from Bristol to Edinburgh.
December 9 » The John Birch Society is founded in the United States.
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