The temperature on July 11, 1888 was about 11.7 °C. There was 3 mm of rain. The air pressure was 4 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the south. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 87%. 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.
In The Netherlands , there was from April 21, 1888 to August 21, 1891 the cabinet Mackay, with Mr. A. baron Mackay (AR) as prime minister.
March 15 » Start of the Anglo-Tibetan War of 1888.
June 15 » Crown Prince Wilhelm becomes Kaiser Wilhelm II; he will be the last Emperor of the German Empire. Due to the death of his predecessors Wilhelm I and Frederick III, 1888 is the Year of the Three Emperors.
August 5 » Bertha Benz drives from Mannheim to Pforzheim and back in the first long distance automobile trip, commemorated as the Bertha Benz Memorial Route since 2008.
August 21 » The first successful adding machine in the United States is patented by William Seward Burroughs.
September 4 » George Eastman registers the trademark Kodak and receives a patent for his camera that uses roll film.
October 30 » The Rudd Concession is granted by Matabeleland to agents of Cecil Rhodes.
Day of death April 14, 1958
The temperature on April 14, 1958 was between 0.6 °C and 13.3 °C and averaged 6.3 °C. There was 12.4 hours of sunshine (90%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. Source: KNMI
January 28 » The Lego company patents the design of its Lego bricks, still compatible with bricks produced today.
January 31 » Cold War: Space Race: The first successful American satellite detects the Van Allen radiation belt.
April 5 » Ripple Rock, an underwater threat to navigation in the Seymour Narrows in Canada is destroyed in one of the largest non-nuclear controlled explosions of the time.
July 1 » Flooding of Canada's Saint Lawrence Seaway begins.
October 2 » Guinea declares its independence from France.
October 7 » The 1958 Pakistani coup d'état inaugurates a prolonged period of military rule.
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