The temperature on June 29, 1890 was about 15.1 °C. There was 5 mm of rain. The air pressure was 3 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 78%. Source: KNMI
January 22 » The United Mine Workers of America is founded in Columbus, Ohio.
March 4 » The longest bridge in Great Britain, the Forth Bridge in Scotland, measuring 1,710 feet (520m) long, is opened by the Duke of Rothesay, later King Edward VII.
July 2 » The U.S. Congress passes the Sherman Antitrust Act.
September 12 » Salisbury, Rhodesia, is founded.
September 24 » The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints officially renounces polygamy.
December 15 » Hunkpapa Lakota leader Sitting Bull is killed on Standing Rock Indian Reservation, leading to the Wounded Knee Massacre.
Day of marriage November 10, 1909
The temperature on November 10, 1909 was between 2.5 °C and 10.5 °C and averaged 6.4 °C. There was 5.7 mm of rain. There was 4.3 hours of sunshine (47%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
February 12 » New Zealand's worst maritime disaster of the 20th century happens when the SSPenguin, an inter-island ferry, sinks and explodes at the entrance to Wellington Harbour.
February 15 » The Flores Theater fire in Acapulco, Mexico kills 250.
April 9 » The U.S. Congress passes the Payne–Aldrich Tariff Act.
May 13 » The first Giro d'Italia starts from Milan. Italian cyclist Luigi Ganna will be the winner.
May 31 » The National Negro Committee, forerunner to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), convenes for the first 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.
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