The temperature on April 15, 1886 was about 4.5 °C. There was 0.7 mm of rain. The air pressure was 6 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the north-northwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 90%. 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.
March 29 » John Pemberton brews the first batch of Coca-Cola in a backyard in Atlanta.
May 4 » Haymarket affair: A bomb is thrown at policemen trying to break up a labor rally in Chicago, United States, killing eight and wounding 60. The police fire into the crowd.
May 29 » The pharmacist John Pemberton places his first advertisement for Coca-Cola, which appeared in The Atlanta Journal.
June 13 » A fire devastates much of Vancouver, British Columbia.
July 4 » The Canadian Pacific Railway's first scheduled train from Montreal arrives in Port Moody on the Pacific coast, after six days of travel.
November 30 » The Folies Bergère stages its first revue.
Day of death January 15, 1968
The temperature on January 15, 1968 was between 6.1 °C and 10.4 °C and averaged 8.7 °C. There was 3.7 hours of sunshine (45%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
June 30 » Pope Paul VI issues the Credo of the People of God.
July 1 » The Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons is signed in Washington, D.C., London and Moscow by sixty-two countries.
September 11 » Air France Flight 1611 crashes off Nice, France, killing 89 passengers and six crew.
November 17 » British European Airways introduces the BAC One-Eleven into commercial service.
December 23 » The 82 sailors from the USSPueblo are released after eleven months of internment in North Korea.
December 25 » Apollo program: Apollo 8 performs the first successful Trans-Earth injection (TEI) maneuver, sending the crew and spacecraft on a trajectory back to Earth from Lunar orbit.
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