The temperature on April 30, 1889 was about 14.0 °C. There was 3 mm of rain. The air pressure was 14 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the east-southeast. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 85%. Source: KNMI
April 1 » The University of Northern Colorado was established, as the Colorado State Normal School.
May 6 » The Eiffel Tower is officially opened to the public at the Universal Exposition in Paris.
June 29 » Hyde Park and several other Illinois townships vote to be annexed by Chicago, forming the largest United States city in area and second largest in population at the time.
September 23 » Nintendo Koppai (Later Nintendo Company, Limited) is founded by Fusajiro Yamauchi to produce and market the playing card game Hanafuda.
November 8 » Montana is admitted as the 41st U.S. state.
November 23 » The first jukebox goes into operation at the Palais Royale Saloon in San Francisco.
Day of marriage April 27, 1909
The temperature on April 27, 1909 was between 9.1 °C and 13.4 °C and averaged 11.3 °C. There was 4.5 mm of rain. There was 0.4 hours of sunshine (3%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
June 2 » Alfred Deakin becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the third time.
August 7 » Alice Huyler Ramsey and three friends become the first women to complete a transcontinental auto trip, taking 59 days to travel from New York, New York to San Francisco, California.
September 20 » The South Africa Act 1909 creates the Union of South Africa from the British Colonies from four smaller colonies.
October 26 » An Jung-geun assassinates Japan's Resident-General of Korea.
December 4 » The Montreal Canadiens ice hockey club, the oldest surviving professional hockey franchise in the world, is founded as a charter member of the National Hockey Association.
Day of death March 8, 1960
The temperature on March 8, 1960 was between -4.5 °C and 1.8 °C and averaged -1.7 °C. There was 8.6 hours of sunshine (76%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east. Source: KNMI
May 3 » The Anne Frank House museum opens in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
May 22 » The Great Chilean earthquake, measuring 9.5 on the moment magnitude scale, hits southern Chile, becoming the most powerful earthquake ever recorded.
August 11 » Chad declares independence.
September 22 » The Sudanese Republic is renamed Mali after the withdrawal of Senegal from the Mali Federation.
September 24 » USSEnterprise, the world's first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, is launched.
November 14 » Ruby Bridges becomes the first black child to attend an all-white elementary school in Louisiana.
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