The temperature on June 23, 1888 was about 21.0 °C. The air pressure was 4 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the east-northeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 70%. 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.
In The Netherlands , there was from April 21, 1888 to August 21, 1891 the cabinet Mackay, with Mr. A. baron Mackay (AR) as prime minister.
March 23 » In England, The Football League, the world's oldest professional association football league, meets for the first time.
May 12 » In Southeast Asia, the North Borneo Chartered Company's territories become the British protectorate of North Borneo.
May 16 » Nikola Tesla delivers a lecture describing the equipment which will allow efficient generation and use of alternating currents to transmit electric power over long distances.
June 15 » Crown Prince Wilhelm becomes Kaiser Wilhelm II; he will be the last Emperor of the German Empire. Due to the death of his predecessors Wilhelm I and Frederick III, 1888 is the Year of the Three Emperors.
October 15 » The "From Hell" letter allegedly sent by Jack the Ripper is received by investigators.
December 22 » The Christmas Meeting of 1888, considered to be the official start of the Faroese independence movement.
Day of death May 6, 1935
The temperature on May 6, 1935 was between 8.8 °C and 23.1 °C and averaged 16.2 °C. There was 12.0 hours of sunshine (79%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. Source: KNMI
January 28 » Iceland becomes the first Western country to legalize therapeutic abortion.
April 14 » The Black Sunday dust storm, considered one of the worst storms of the Dust Bowl, swept across the Oklahoma and Texas panhandles and neighboring areas.
May 27 » New Deal: The Supreme Court of the United States declares the National Industrial Recovery Act to be unconstitutional in A.L.A. Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States, (295 U.S. 495).
May 31 » A 7.7 Mw earthquake destroys Quetta in modern-day Pakistan killing 40,000.
December 9 » Student protests in Beiping (now Beijing)'s Tiananmen Square, dispersed by government.
December 9 » Walter Liggett, American newspaper editor and muckraker, is killed in a gangland murder.
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