The temperature on July 13, 1890 was about 15.7 °C. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 68%. Source: KNMI
January 1 » Eritrea is consolidated into a colony by the Italian government.
January 25 » Nellie Bly completes her round-the-world journey in 72 days.
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.
August 6 » At Auburn Prison in New York, murderer William Kemmler becomes the first person to be executed by electric chair.
November 29 » The Meiji Constitution goes into effect in Japan, and the first Diet convenes.
December 29 » Wounded Knee Massacre on Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, 300 Lakota are killed by the United States 7th Cavalry Regiment.
Day of marriage October 11, 1911
The temperature on October 11, 1911 was between 2.2 °C and 14.4 °C and averaged 7.9 °C. There was 3.2 hours of sunshine (29%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. Source: KNMI
March 29 » The M1911 .45 ACP pistol becomes the official U.S. Army side arm.
June 16 » IBM founded as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company in Endicott, New York.
September 20 » The White Star Line's RMSOlympic collides with the British warship HMSHawke.
September 25 » An explosion of badly degraded propellant charges on board the French battleship Liberté detonates the forward ammunition magazines and destroys the ship.
October 5 » The Kowloon–Canton Railway commences service.
December 24 » Lackawanna Cut-Off railway line opens in New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
Day of death November 10, 1960
The temperature on November 10, 1960 was between -1.2 °C and 7.8 °C and averaged 3.6 °C. There was 3.6 mm of rain during 4.1 hours. The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. Source: KNMI
February 8 » Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom issues an Order-in-Council, stating that she and her family would be known as the House of Windsor, and that her descendants will take the name Mountbatten-Windsor.
April 25 » The United States Navy submarine USSTriton completes the first submerged circumnavigation of the globe.
July 11 » Congo Crisis: The State of Katanga breaks away from the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
July 11 » To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is first published, in the United States.
August 7 » Ivory Coast becomes independent from France.
August 16 » Joseph Kittinger parachutes from a balloon over New Mexico at 102,800 feet (31,300m), setting three records that held until 2012: High-altitude jump, free fall, and highest speed by a human without an aircraft.
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