The temperature on November 19, 1892 was about 7.5 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 97%. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from August 21, 1891 to May 9, 1894 the cabinet Van Tienhoven, with Mr. G. van Tienhoven (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
April 15 » The General Electric Company is formed.
July 8 » St. John's, Newfoundland is devastated in the Great Fire of 1892.
July 26 » Dadabhai Naoroji is elected as the first Indian Member of Parliament in Britain.
August 4 » The father and stepmother of Lizzie Borden are found murdered in their Fall River, Massachusetts home. She was tried and acquitted for the crimes a year later.
August 9 » Thomas Edison receives a patent for a two-way telegraph.
September 8 » The Pledge of Allegiance is first recited.
Day of death March 31, 1963
The temperature on March 31, 1963 was between 2.3 °C and 4.9 °C and averaged 3.6 °C. There was 3.0 mm of rain during 2.9 hours. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north. Source: KNMI
May 30 » A protest against pro-Catholic discrimination during the Buddhist crisis is held outside South Vietnam's National Assembly, the first open demonstration during the eight-year rule of Ngo Dinh Diem.
June 17 » A day after South Vietnamese President Ngô Đình Diệm announced the Joint Communiqué to end the Buddhist crisis, a riot involving around 2,000 people breaks out. One person is killed.
June 24 » The United Kingdom grants Zanzibar internal self-government.
October 9 » In Italy, a large landslide a causes a giant wave to overtop the Vajont Dam, killing over 2,000.
November 9 » At Miike coal mine, Miike, Japan, an explosion kills 458, and hospitalises 839 with carbon monoxide poisoning.
November 24 » Lee Harvey Oswald, the assassin of President John F. Kennedy, is killed by Jack Ruby.
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