The temperature on March 22, 1890 was about 10.2 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 69%. Source: KNMI
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.
April 7 » Completion of the first Lake Biwa Canal.
April 14 » The Pan-American Union is founded by the First International Conference of American States in Washington, D.C.
October 1 » Yosemite National Park is established by the U.S. Congress.
November 4 » City and South London Railway: London's first deep-level tube railway opens between King William Street and Stockwell.
December 29 » Wounded Knee Massacre on Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, 300 Lakota are killed by the United States 7th Cavalry Regiment.
Day of marriage May 15, 1917
The temperature on May 15, 1917 was between 10.0 °C and 17.9 °C and averaged 12.8 °C. There was 6.5 hours of sunshine (42%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from August 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
January 19 » Silvertown explosion: A blast at a munitions factory in London kills 73 and injures over 400. The resulting fire causes over £2,000,000 worth of damage.
January 22 » World War I: President Woodrow Wilson of the still-neutral United States calls for "peace without victory" in Europe.
May 21 » The Great Atlanta fire of 1917 causes $5.5million in damages, destroying some 300 acres including 2,000 homes, businesses and churches, displacing about 10,000 people but leading to only one fatality (due to heart attack).
May 26 » Several powerful tornadoes rip through Illinois, including the city of Mattoon.
July 28 » The Silent Parade took place in New York City, in protest to murders, lynchings, and other violence directed towards African Americans.
October 26 » First World War: Brazil declares war on the Central Powers.
Day of death July 5, 1958
The temperature on July 5, 1958 was between 13.9 °C and 20.1 °C and averaged 16.6 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 3.5 hours of sunshine (21%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
March 1 » Samuel Alphonsus Stritch is appointed Pro-Prefect of the Propagation of Faith and thus becomes the first U.S. member of the Roman Curia.
May 13 » Ben Carlin becomes the first (and only) person to circumnavigate the world by amphibious vehicle, having travelled over 17,000 kilometres (11,000mi) by sea and 62,000 kilometres (39,000mi) by land during a ten-year journey.
July 1 » The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation links television broadcasting across Canada via microwave.
July 7 » US President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the Alaska Statehood Act into law.
August 18 » Vladimir Nabokov's controversial novel Lolita is published in the United States.
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