The temperature on January 24, 1887 was about 5.5 °C. The air pressure was 4 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the south-southeast. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 84%. 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 20 » The United States Senate allows the Navy to lease Pearl Harbor as a naval base.
February 2 » In Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania the first Groundhog Day is observed.
May 9 » Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show opens in London.
June 23 » The Rocky Mountains Park Act becomes law in Canada creating the nation's first national park, Banff National Park.
July 4 » The founder of Pakistan, Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, joins Sindh-Madrasa-tul-Islam, Karachi.
November 9 » The United States receives rights to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
Day of death November 20, 1958
The temperature on November 20, 1958 was between -1.1 °C and 6.8 °C and averaged 3.4 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. Source: KNMI
February 3 » Founding of the Benelux Economic Union, creating a testing ground for a later European Economic Community.
February 28 » A school bus in Floyd County, Kentucky hits a wrecker truck and plunges down an embankment into the rain-swollen Levisa Fork river. The driver and 26 children die in what remains one of the worst school bus accidents in U.S. history.
March 3 » Nuri al-Said becomes Prime Minister of Iraq for the eighth time.
July 9 » A 7.8 Mw strike-slip earthquake in Alaska causes a landslide that produces a megatsunami. The runup from the waves reached 525m (1,722ft) on the rim of Lituya Bay; five people were killed.
September 1 » Iceland expands its fishing zone, putting it into conflict with the United Kingdom, beginning the Cod Wars.
October 7 » The 1958 Pakistani coup d'état inaugurates a prolonged period of military rule.
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