Alternative names: Edmond A Shafer, Edmon Shafer, Edman A. Shafer, Edmon Shafer, Edmond A Shafer, Edmond A Shafer, Edman A. Shafer, Edmond A Shafer, Edmond A Shafer, Edmond A Shafer, Edmond A Shafer
1910 United States Federal Census, Ancestry.com, Year: 1910; Census Place: West St Paul Ward 1, Dakota, Minnesota; Roll: T624_695; Page: 26A; Enumeration District: 0033; FHL microfilm: 1374708 / Ancestry.com
The temperature on December 22, 1879 was about -9.7 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the south. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 91%. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from November 3, 1877 to August 20, 1879 the cabinet Kappeijne van de Coppello, with Mr. J. Kappeijne van de Coppello (liberaal) as prime minister.
In The Netherlands , there was from August 20, 1879 to April 23, 1883 the cabinet Van Lijnden van Sandenburg, with Mr. C.Th. baron Van Lijnden van Sandenburg (conservatief-AR) as prime minister.
January 22 » The Battle of Isandlwana during the Anglo-Zulu War results in a British defeat.
February 8 » Sandford Fleming first proposes adoption of Universal Standard Time at a meeting of the Royal Canadian Institute.
May 14 » The first group of 463 Indian indentured laborers arrives in Fiji aboard the Leonidas.
September 18 » The Blackpool Illuminations are switched on for the first time.
December 21 » World premiere of Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House at the Royal Theatre in Copenhagen, Denmark.
December 31 » Thomas Edison demonstrates incandescent lighting to the public for the first time, in Menlo Park, New Jersey.
Day of marriage August 22, 1904
The temperature on August 22, 1904 was between 7.9 °C and 18.8 °C and averaged 14.2 °C. There was 3.1 hours of sunshine (22%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. Source: KNMI
January 8 » The Blackstone Library is dedicated, marking the beginning of the Chicago Public Library system.
February 28 » S.L. Benfica is founded in Portugal.
April 8 » The French Third Republic and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland sign the Entente cordiale.
May 10 » The Horch & Cir. Motorwagenwerke AG is founded. It would eventually become the Audi company.
October 27 » The first underground New York City Subway line opens, later designated as the IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line.
December 6 » Theodore Roosevelt articulated his "Corollary" to the Monroe Doctrine, stating that the U.S. would intervene in the Western Hemisphere should Latin American governments prove incapable or unstable.
Day of death July 18, 1957
The temperature on July 18, 1957 was between 14.1 °C and 19.1 °C and averaged 16.3 °C. There was 17.2 mm of rain during 4.0 hours. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. Source: KNMI
January 22 » The New York City "Mad Bomber", George P. Metesky, is arrested in Waterbury, Connecticut and charged with planting more than 30 bombs.
February 18 » Walter James Bolton becomes the last person legally executed in New Zealand.
April 30 » Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery entered into force.
June 10 » John Diefenbaker leads the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada to a stunning upset in the 1957 Canadian federal election, ending 22 years of Liberal Party government.
June 24 » In Roth v. United States, the U.S. Supreme Court rules that obscenity is not protected by the First Amendment.
November 14 » The "Apalachin Meeting" in rural Tioga County in upstate New York is raided by law enforcement; many high level Mafia figures are arrested while trying to flee.
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