The temperature on April 8, 1884 was about 10.7 °C. There was 0.6 mm of rain. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 84%. 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.
March 13 » The Siege of Khartoum begins. It lasts until January 26, 1885.
July 5 » Germany takes possession of Cameroon.
August 5 » The cornerstone for the Statue of Liberty is laid on Bedloe's Island (now Liberty Island) in New York Harbor.
October 13 » The International Meridian Conference establishes the meridian of the Greenwich Observatory as the prime meridian.
October 14 » George Eastman receives a U.S. Government patent on his new paper-strip photographic film.
November 1 » The Gaelic Athletic Association is set up in Hayes's Hotel in Thurles, County Tipperary.
Day of death October 3, 1958
The temperature on October 3, 1958 was between 8.4 °C and 16.9 °C and averaged 12.8 °C. There was 7.9 hours of sunshine (69%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. Source: KNMI
March 3 » Nuri al-Said becomes Prime Minister of Iraq for the eighth time.
March 26 » The United States Army launches Explorer 3.
March 27 » Nikita Khrushchev becomes Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union.
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.
August 18 » Brojen Das from Bangladesh swims across the English Channel in a competition, as the first Bengali and the first Asian to do so. He came first among 39 competitors.
November 25 » French Sudan gains autonomy as a self-governing member of the French Community.
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