The temperature on April 19, 1895 was about 10.5 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 95%. Source: KNMI
January 5 » Dreyfus affair: French army officer Alfred Dreyfus is stripped of his rank and sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil's Island.
February 24 » Revolution breaks out in Baire, a town near Santiago de Cuba, beginning the Cuban War of Independence, that ends with the Spanish–American War in 1898.
June 27 » The inaugural run of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's Royal Blue from Washington, D.C., to New York City, the first U.S. passenger train to use electric locomotives.
September 18 » The Atlanta Exposition Speech on race relations is delivered by Booker T. Washington.
October 8 » Korean Empress Myeongseong is assassinated by Japanese infiltrators.
November 27 » At the Swedish–Norwegian Club in Paris, Alfred Nobel signs his last will and testament, setting aside his estate to establish the Nobel Prize after he dies.
Day of marriage June 21, 1917
The temperature on June 21, 1917 was between 13.1 °C and 20.1 °C and averaged 16.5 °C. There was 5.8 mm of rain. There was 6.6 hours of sunshine (39%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. 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.
March 2 » The enactment of the Jones–Shafroth Act grants Puerto Ricans United States citizenship.
July 25 » Sir Robert Borden introduces the first income tax in Canada as a "temporary" measure (lowest bracket is 4% and highest is 25%).
July 31 » World War I: The Battle of Passchendaele begins near Ypres in West Flanders, Belgium.
August 6 » World War I: Battle of Mărășești between the Romanian and German armies begins.
November 5 » October Revolution: Lenin calls for the October Revolution.
November 20 » World War I: Battle of Cambrai begins: British forces make early progress in an attack on German positions but are later pushed back.
Day of death February 9, 1953
The temperature on February 9, 1953 was between -1.7 °C and 4.5 °C and averaged 1.3 °C. There was 13.0 mm of rain during 12.6 hours. There was 3.0 hours of sunshine (31%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
January 3 » Frances P. Bolton and her son, Oliver from Ohio, become the first mother and son to serve simultaneously in the U.S. Congress.
March 1 » Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin suffers a stroke and collapses; he dies four days later.
April 25 » Francis Crick and James Watson publish "Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids: A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid" describing the double helix structure of DNA.
May 25 » The first public television station in the United States officially begins broadcasting as KUHT from the campus of the University of Houston.
August 12 » The 7.2 Ms Ionian earthquake shakes the southern Ionian Islands with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme). Between 445 and 800 people are killed.
September 26 » Rationing of sugar in the United Kingdom ends
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