The temperature on October 4, 1885 was about 13.5 °C. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the west. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 69%. 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.
January 3 » Sino-French War: Beginning of the Battle of Núi Bop
January 4 » Sino-French War: French troops under General Oscar de Négrier defeat a numerically superior Qing force at Núi Bop in northern Vietnam.
March 23 » Sino-French War: Chinese victory in the Battle of Phu Lam Tao near Hưng Hóa, northern Vietnam.
March 31 » The United Kingdom establishes the Bechuanaland Protectorate.
July 23 » President Ulysses S. Grant dies of throat cancer.
August 29 » Gottlieb Daimler patents the world's first internal combustion motorcycle, the Reitwagen.
Day of marriage February 23, 1910
The temperature on February 23, 1910 was between 3.0 °C and 8.1 °C and averaged 5.2 °C. There was 3.2 mm of rain. There was 0.7 hours of sunshine (7%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
March 8 » French aviator Raymonde de Laroche becomes the first woman to receive a pilot's license.
March 28 » Henri Fabre becomes the first person to fly a seaplane, the Fabre Hydravion, after taking off from a water runway near Martigues, France.
April 28 » Frenchman Louis Paulhan wins the 1910 London to Manchester air race, the first long-distance aeroplane race in England.
May 11 » An act of the U.S. Congress establishes Glacier National Park in Montana.
June 2 » Charles Rolls, a co-founder of Rolls-Royce Limited, becomes the first man to make a non-stop double crossing of the English Channel by plane.
November 10 » The date of Thomas A. Davis' opening of the San Diego Army and Navy Academy, although the official founding date is November 23, 1910.
Day of death April 28, 1942
The temperature on April 28, 1942 was between 3.7 °C and 13.3 °C and averaged 9.1 °C. There was 12.8 hours of sunshine (87%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from July 27, 1941 to February 23, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy II, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
January 11 » World War II: Japanese forces attack Tarakan in Borneo, Netherlands Indies (Battle of Tarakan)
January 23 » World War II: The Battle of Rabaul commences Japan's invasion of Australia's Territory of New Guinea.
January 26 » World War II: The first United States forces arrive in Europe landing in Northern Ireland.
May 22 » Mexico enters the Second World War on the side of the Allies.
June 3 » World War II: Japan begins the Aleutian Islands Campaign by bombing Unalaska Island.
August 11 » Actress Hedy Lamarr and composer George Antheil receive a patent for a Frequency-hopping spread spectrum communication system that later became the basis for modern technologies in wireless telephones and Wi-Fi.
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