The temperature on September 13, 1889 was about 14.5 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain. The air pressure was 28 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the northeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 95%. Source: KNMI
January 22 » Columbia Phonograph is formed in Washington, D.C.
February 11 » Meiji Constitution of Japan is adopted.
May 2 » Menelik II, Emperor of Ethiopia, signs the Treaty of Wuchale, giving Italy control over Eritrea.
May 6 » The Eiffel Tower is officially opened to the public at the Universal Exposition in Paris.
June 29 » Hyde Park and several other Illinois townships vote to be annexed by Chicago, forming the largest United States city in area and second largest in population at the time.
November 14 » Pioneering female journalist Nellie Bly (aka Elizabeth Cochrane) begins a successful attempt to travel around the world in less than 80 days. She completes the trip in 72 days.
Day of marriage May 3, 1907
The temperature on May 3, 1907 was between 4.7 °C and 12.9 °C and averaged 8.9 °C. There was 3.8 mm of rain. There was 6.0 hours of sunshine (40%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from August 17, 1905 to February 11, 1908 the cabinet De Meester, with Mr. Th. de Meester (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
March 24 » The first issue of the Georgian Bolshevik newspaper Dro is published.
July 21 » The passenger steamer SS Columbia sinks after colliding with the steam schooner San Pedro off Shelter Cove, California, killing 88 people.
August 17 » Pike Place Market, a popular tourist destination and registered historic district in Seattle, opened.
October 17 » Marconi begins the first commercial transatlantic wireless service.
December 14 » The Thomas W. Lawson, the largest ever ship without a heat engine, runs aground and founders near the Hellweather's Reef within the Isles of Scilly in a gale. The pilot and 15 seamen die.
December 16 » The American Great White Fleet begins its circumnavigation of the world.
Day of death May 20, 1966
The temperature on May 20, 1966 was between 4.7 °C and 15.9 °C and averaged 11.3 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 0.3 hours. There was 13.3 hours of sunshine (84%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
January 31 » The Soviet Union launches the unmanned Luna 9 spacecraft as part of the Luna program.
February 3 » The Soviet Union's Luna 9 becomes the first spacecraft to make a soft landing on the Moon, and the first spacecraft to take pictures from the surface of the Moon.
March 10 » Military Prime Minister of South Vietnam Nguyễn Cao Kỳ sacked rival General Nguyễn Chánh Thi, precipitating large-scale civil and military dissension in parts of the nation.
April 21 » Rastafari movement: Haile Selassie of Ethiopia visits Jamaica, an event now celebrated as Grounation Day.
July 2 » France conducts its first nuclear weapon test in the Pacific, on Moruroa Atoll.
October 4 » Basutoland becomes independent from the United Kingdom and is renamed Lesotho.
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