The temperature on September 27, 1884 was about 13.0 °C. The air pressure was 4 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 81%. 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.
February 1 » The first volume (A to Ant) of the Oxford English Dictionary is published.
March 27 » A mob in Cincinnati, Ohio, attacks members of a jury which had returned a verdict of manslaughter in what was seen as a clear case of murder; over the next few days the mob would riot and eventually destroy the courthouse.
May 1 » Moses Fleetwood Walker becomes the first black person to play in a professional baseball game in the United States.
June 16 » The first purpose-built roller coaster, LaMarcus Adna Thompson's "Switchback Railway", opens in New York's Coney Island amusement park.
July 5 » Germany takes possession of Cameroon.
October 14 » George Eastman receives a U.S. Government patent on his new paper-strip photographic film.
Day of death July 26, 1946
The temperature on July 26, 1946 was between 12.0 °C and 26.6 °C and averaged 20.6 °C. There was 2.9 mm of rain during 0.5 hours. There was 11.9 hours of sunshine (75%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east. Source: KNMI
From June 24, 1945 till July 3, 1946 the Netherlands had a cabinet Schermerhorn - Drees with the prime ministers Prof. ir. W. Schermerhorn (VDB) and W. Drees (PvdA).
In The Netherlands , there was from July 3, 1946 to August 7, 1948 the cabinet Beel I, with Dr. L.J.M. Beel (KVP) as prime minister.
February 12 » World War II: Operation Deadlight ends after scuttling 121 of 154 captured U-boats.
April 3 » Japanese Lt. General Masaharu Homma is executed in the Philippines for leading the Bataan Death March.
June 5 » A fire in the La Salle Hotel in Chicago, Illinois, kills 61 people.
September 6 » United States Secretary of State James F. Byrnes announces that the U.S. will follow a policy of economic reconstruction in postwar Germany.
October 1 » Nazi leaders are sentenced at the Nuremberg trials.
October 16 » Nuremberg trials: Ten defendants found guilty by the International Military Tribunal are executed by hanging.
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