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 15 » Start of the Anglo-Tibetan War of 1888.
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.
August 14 » An audio recording of English composer Arthur Sullivan's "The Lost Chord", one of the first recordings of music ever made, is played during a press conference introducing Thomas Edison's phonograph in London, England.
August 21 » The first successful adding machine in the United States is patented by William Seward Burroughs.
October 14 » Louis Le Prince films the first motion picture, Roundhay Garden Scene.
October 15 » The "From Hell" letter allegedly sent by Jack the Ripper is received by investigators.
Day of death July 24, 1982
The temperature on July 24, 1982 was between 15.1 °C and 20.9 °C and averaged 17.3 °C. There was 0.3 hours of sunshine (2%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Friday, September 11, 1981 to Saturday, May 29, 1982 the cabinet Van Agt II, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA) as prime minister.
In The Netherlands , there was from Saturday, May 29, 1982 to Thursday, November 4, 1982 the cabinet Van Agt III, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA) as prime minister.
In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, November 4, 1982 to Monday, July 14, 1986 the cabinet Lubbers I, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
March 22 » NASA's Space Shuttle Columbia is launched from the Kennedy Space Center on its third mission, STS-3.
May 30 » Cold War: Spain joins NATO.
June 13 » Battles of Tumbledown and Wireless Ridge, during the Falklands War.
June 27 » Space Shuttle Columbia launched from the Kennedy Space Center on the final research and development flight mission, STS-4.
October 1 » Sony and Phillips launch the compact disc in Japan. On the same day, Sony released the model CDP-101 compact disc player, the first player of its kind.
October 14 » U.S. President Ronald Reagan proclaims a War on Drugs.
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