The temperature on May 20, 1892 was about 10.4 °C. There was 2 mm of rain. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 96%. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from August 21, 1891 to May 9, 1894 the cabinet Van Tienhoven, with Mr. G. van Tienhoven (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
July 7 » The Katipunan is established, the discovery of which by Spanish authorities initiated the Philippine Revolution.
July 26 » Dadabhai Naoroji is elected as the first Indian Member of Parliament in Britain.
September 9 » Amalthea, third moon of Jupiter is discovered by Edward Emerson Barnard.
October 13 » Edward Emerson Barnard discovers first comet discovered by photographic means.
November 8 » The New Orleans general strike begins, uniting black and white American trade unionists in a successful four-day general strike action for the first time.
November 12 » Pudge Heffelfinger becomes the first professional American football player on record, participating in his first paid game for the Allegheny Athletic Association.
Day of death February 16, 1961
The temperature on February 16, 1961 was between 0.4 °C and 7.5 °C and averaged 4.4 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east. Source: KNMI
January 3 » A protest by agricultural workers in Baixa de Cassanje, Portuguese Angola, turns into a revolt, opening the Angolan War of Independence, the first of the Portuguese Colonial Wars.
March 9 » Sputnik 9 successfully launches, carrying a dog and a human dummy, and demonstrating that the Soviet Union was ready to begin human spaceflight.
May 30 » The long-time Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo is assassinated in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
September 1 » The Eritrean War of Independence officially begins with the shooting of Ethiopian police by Hamid Idris Awate.
September 10 » In the Italian Grand Prix, a crash causes the death of German Formula One driver Wolfgang von Trips and 13 spectators who are hit by his Ferrari, the deadliest accident in F1 history.
October 30 » The Soviet Union detonates the Tsar Bomba, the most powerful explosive device ever detonated.
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