The temperature on August 3, 1890 was about 15.1 °C. There was 4 mm of rain. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the north-northwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 98%. Source: KNMI
January 1 » Eritrea is consolidated into a colony by the Italian government.
March 20 » Prime Minister of the German Empire Otto von Bismarck is dismissed by Emperor Wilhelm II.
July 1 » Canada and Bermuda are linked by telegraph cable.
August 6 » At Auburn Prison in New York, murderer William Kemmler becomes the first person to be executed by electric chair.
September 24 » The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints officially renounces polygamy.
December 15 » Hunkpapa Lakota leader Sitting Bull is killed on Standing Rock Indian Reservation, leading to the Wounded Knee Massacre.
Day of death April 10, 1962
The temperature on April 10, 1962 was between 0.6 °C and 9.8 °C and averaged 5.8 °C. There was 1.3 mm of rain during 4.3 hours. There was 2.9 hours of sunshine (21%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
February 27 » Two dissident Republic of Vietnam Air Force pilots bomb the Independence Palace in Saigon in a failed attempt to assassinate South Vietnam President Ngô Đình Diệm.
May 19 » A birthday salute to U.S. President John F. Kennedy takes place at Madison Square Garden, New York City. The highlight is Marilyn Monroe's rendition of "Happy Birthday".
May 31 » The West Indies Federation dissolves.
July 11 » First transatlantic satellite television transmission.
December 14 » NASA's Mariner 2 becomes the first spacecraft to fly by Venus.
December 25 » The Soviet Union conducts its final above-ground nuclear weapon test, in anticipation of the 1963 Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.
Day of burial April 13, 1962
The temperature on April 13, 1962 was between 0.7 °C and 9.8 °C and averaged 4.6 °C. There was 1.2 mm of rain during 0.7 hours. There was 4.7 hours of sunshine (34%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. Source: KNMI
July 6 » As a part of Operation Plowshare, the Sedan nuclear test takes place.
August 22 » The OAS attempts to assassinate French president Charles de Gaulle.
September 30 » Mexican-American labor leader César Chávez founds the National Farm Workers Association.
October 12 » The Columbus Day Storm strikes the U.S. Pacific Northwest with record wind velocities; 46 dead and at least U.S. $230 million in damages.
October 27 » Major Rudolf Anderson of the United States Air Force becomes the only direct human casualty of the Cuban Missile Crisis when his U-2 reconnaissance airplane is shot down over Cuba by a Soviet-supplied surface-to-air missile.
November 24 » Cold War: The West Berlin branch of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany forms a separate party, the Socialist Unity Party of West Berlin.
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