The temperature on January 18, 1885 was about -2.6 °C. The air pressure was 3 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the east. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 92%. 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 1 » Twenty-five nations adopt Sandford Fleming's proposal for standard time (and also, time zones).
January 4 » Sino-French War: French troops under General Oscar de Négrier defeat a numerically superior Qing force at Núi Bop in northern Vietnam.
February 5 » King Leopold II of Belgium establishes the Congo as a personal possession.
March 19 » Louis Riel declares a provisional government in Saskatchewan, beginning the North-West Rebellion.
May 12 » North-West Rebellion: The four-day Battle of Batoche, pitting rebel Métis against the Canadian government, comes to an end with a decisive rebel defeat.
November 17 » Serbo-Bulgarian War: The decisive Battle of Slivnitsa begins.
Day of marriage September 1, 1910
The temperature on September 1, 1910 was between 8.4 °C and 18.5 °C and averaged 13.1 °C. There was 3.7 mm of rain. There was 4.3 hours of sunshine (31%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
April 28 » Frenchman Louis Paulhan wins the 1910 London to Manchester air race, the first long-distance aeroplane race in England.
May 6 » George V becomes King of Great Britain, Ireland, and many overseas territories, on the death of his father, Edward VII.
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.
September 20 » The ocean liner SSFrance, later known as the "Versailles of the Atlantic", is launched.
November 14 » Aviator Eugene Burton Ely performs the first takeoff from a ship in Hampton Roads, Virginia, taking off from a makeshift deck on the USS Birmingham in a Curtiss pusher.
December 21 » An underground explosion at the Hulton Bank Colliery No. 3 Pit in Over Hulton, Westhoughton, England, kills 344 miners.
Day of death February 25, 1961
The temperature on February 25, 1961 was between 5.9 °C and 13.2 °C and averaged 9.7 °C. There was 1.7 hours of sunshine (16%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
February 14 » Discovery of the chemical elements: Element 103, Lawrencium, is first synthesized at the University of California.
May 28 » Peter Benenson's article The Forgotten Prisoners is published in several internationally read newspapers. This will later be thought of as the founding of the human rights organization Amnesty International.
August 21 » Motown releases what would be its first #1 hit (in America), "Please Mr. Postman" by The Marvelettes.
September 20 » Greek general Konstantinos Dovas becomes Prime Minister of Greece.
November 29 » Project Mercury: Mercury-Atlas 5 Mission: Enos, a chimpanzee, is launched into space. The spacecraft orbits the Earth twice and splashes down off the coast of Puerto Rico.
December 2 » In a nationally broadcast speech, Cuban leader Fidel Castro declares that he is a Marxist–Leninist and that Cuba is going to adopt Communism.
Day of cremation March 2, 1961
The temperature on March 2, 1961 was between 2.3 °C and 9.3 °C and averaged 6.9 °C. There was 1.0 mm of rain during 1.2 hours. There was 0.4 hours of sunshine (4%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
January 8 » In France a referendum supports Charles de Gaulle's policies in Algeria.
January 25 » 101 Dalmatians premiered from Walt Disney Productions.
June 4 » Cold War: In the Vienna summit, the Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev sparks the Berlin Crisis by threatening to sign a separate peace treaty with East Germany and ending American, British and French access to East Berlin.
September 1 » The Eritrean War of Independence officially begins with the shooting of Ethiopian police by Hamid Idris Awate.
December 15 » Adolf Eichmann is sentenced to death after being found guilty by an Israeli court of 15 criminal charges, including charges of crimes against humanity, crimes against the Jewish people, and membership of an outlawed organization.
December 19 » India annexes Daman and Diu, part of Portuguese India.
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