The temperature on January 27, 1889 was about 2.1 °C. There was 1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 8 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the northwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 89%. Source: KNMI
January 22 » Columbia Phonograph is formed in Washington, D.C.
February 11 » Meiji Constitution of Japan is adopted.
May 11 » An attack upon a U.S. Army paymaster and escort results in the theft of over $28,000 and the award of two Medals of Honor.
August 13 » William Gray of Hartford, Connecticut is granted United States Patent Number 408,709 for "Coin-controlled apparatus for telephones."
November 2 » North Dakota and South Dakota are admitted as the 39th and 40th U.S. states.
November 23 » The first jukebox goes into operation at the Palais Royale Saloon in San Francisco.
Day of death November 11, 1921
The temperature on November 11, 1921 was between -3.5 and 4.2 °C. There was 4.9 hours of sunshine (54%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from September 9, 1918 to September 18, 1922 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck I, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
February 22 » After Russian forces under Baron Roman von Ungern-Sternberg drive the Chinese out, the Bogd Khan is reinstalled as the emperor of Mongolia.
February 27 » The International Working Union of Socialist Parties is founded in Vienna.
March 18 » The Kronstadt rebellion is suppressed by the Red Army.
May 19 » The United States Congress passes the Emergency Quota Act establishing national quotas on immigration.
September 11 » Nahalal, the first moshav in Palestine, is settled as part of a Zionist plan of creating a Jewish state, later to be Israel.
September 21 » A storage silo in Oppau, Germany, explodes, killing 500–600 people.
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