The temperature on June 15, 1882 was about 11.4 °C. There was 5 mm of rain. The air pressure was 25 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 84%. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from August 20, 1879 to April 23, 1883 the cabinet Van Lijnden van Sandenburg, with Mr. C.Th. baron Van Lijnden van Sandenburg (conservatief-AR) as prime minister.
May 6 » The United States Congress passes the Chinese Exclusion Act.
May 6 » Thomas Henry Burke and Lord Frederick Cavendish are stabbed to death by Fenian assassins in Phoenix Park, Dublin.
September 4 » The Pearl Street Station in New York City becomes the first power plant to supply electricity to paying customers.
September 30 » Thomas Edison's first commercial hydroelectric power plant (later known as Appleton Edison Light Company) begins operation.
December 6 » Transit of Venus, second and last of the 19th century.
December 16 » Wales and England contest the first Home Nations (now Six Nations) rugby union match.
Day of marriage May 7, 1912
The temperature on May 7, 1912 was between 8.6 °C and 15.8 °C and averaged 12.6 °C. There was 0.9 mm of rain. There was 0.6 hours of sunshine (4%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
April 14 » The British passenger liner RMSTitanic hits an iceberg in the North Atlantic at 23:40 (sinks morning of April 15th).
April 15 » The British passenger liner RMSTitanic sinks in the North Atlantic at 2:20a.m., two hours and forty minutes after hitting an iceberg. Only 710 of 2,227 passengers and crew on board survive.
August 14 » U.S. Marines invade Nicaragua to support the U.S.-backed government installed there after José Santos Zelaya had resigned three years earlier.
September 4 » Albanian rebels succeed in their revolt when the Ottoman Empire agrees to fulfill their demands
October 19 » Italo-Turkish War: Italy takes possession of what is now Libya from the Ottoman Empire.
November 12 » The frozen bodies of Robert Scott and his men are found on the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica.
Day of death April 14, 1934
The temperature on April 14, 1934 was between 5.3 °C and 19.1 °C and averaged 12.2 °C. There was 3.7 hours of sunshine (27%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. Source: KNMI
January 26 » The Apollo Theater reopens in Harlem, New York City.
May 15 » Kārlis Ulmanis establishes an authoritarian government in Latvia.
July 20 » West Coast waterfront strike: In Seattle, police fire tear gas on and club 2,000 striking longshoremen. The governor of Oregon calls out the National Guard to break a strike on the Portland docks.
September 1 » The first Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer animated cartoon, The Discontented Canary, is released to movie theatres.
October 9 » An Ustashe assassin kills King Alexander I of Yugoslavia and Louis Barthou, Foreign Minister of France, in Marseille.
November 11 » The Shrine of Remembrance in Melbourne, Australia is opened.
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