The temperature on July 25, 1887 was about 16.4 °C. The air pressure was 8 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 90%. 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.
April 4 » Argonia, Kansas elects Susanna M. Salter as the first female mayor in the United States.
July 26 » Publication of the Unua Libro, founding the Esperanto movement.
September 5 » A fire at the Theatre Royal, Exeter, kills 186.
October 1 » Balochistan is conquered by the British Empire.
November 9 » The United States receives rights to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
November 11 » August Spies, Albert Parsons, Adolph Fischer and George Engel are executed as a result of the Haymarket affair.
Day of marriage December 3, 1909
The temperature on December 3, 1909 was between 4.7 °C and 10.9 °C and averaged 7.4 °C. There was 6.0 mm of rain. There was 3.6 hours of sunshine (45%). The average windspeed was 7 Bft (strong wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
February 15 » The Flores Theater fire in Acapulco, Mexico kills 250.
April 11 » The city of Tel Aviv is founded.
July 25 » Louis Blériot makes the first flight across the English Channel in a heavier-than-air machine from Calais to Dover, England, United Kingdom in 37 minutes.
August 24 » Workers start pouring concrete for the Panama Canal.
September 30 » The Cunard Line's RMS Mauretania makes a record-breaking westbound crossing of the Atlantic, that will not be bettered for 20 years.
October 26 » An Jung-geun assassinates Japan's Resident-General of Korea.
Day of death April 4, 1953
The temperature on April 4, 1953 was between 2.3 °C and 8.5 °C and averaged 6.9 °C. There was 5.3 mm of rain during 7.6 hours. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
February 19 » Book censorship in the United States: The Georgia Literature Commission is established.
February 28 » James Watson and Francis Crick announce to friends that they have determined the chemical structure of DNA; the formal announcement takes place on April 25 following publication in April's Nature (pub. April 2).
March 6 » Georgy Malenkov succeeds Joseph Stalin as Premier of the Soviet Union and First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
July 7 » Ernesto "Che" Guevara sets out on a trip through Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, and El Salvador.
July 27 » Cessation of hostilities is achieved in the Korean War when the United States, China, and North Korea sign an armistice agreement. Syngman Rhee, President of South Korea, refuses to sign but pledges to observe the armistice.
September 12 » U.S. Senator and future President John Fitzgerald Kennedy marries Jacqueline Lee Bouvier at St. Mary's Church in Newport, Rhode Island.
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