The temperature on August 2, 1884 was about 26.7 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 55%. 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.
February 19 » More than sixty tornadoes strike the Southern United States, one of the largest tornado outbreaks in U.S. history.
May 1 » Moses Fleetwood Walker becomes the first black person to play in a professional baseball game in the United States.
August 5 » The cornerstone for the Statue of Liberty is laid on Bedloe's Island (now Liberty Island) in New York Harbor.
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.
December 10 » Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is published.
Day of marriage May 11, 1906
The temperature on May 11, 1906 was between 7.4 °C and 14.3 °C and averaged 10.1 °C. There was 1.4 hours of sunshine (9%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from August 17, 1905 to February 11, 1908 the cabinet De Meester, with Mr. Th. de Meester (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
March 10 » The Courrières mine disaster, Europe's worst ever, kills 1099 miners in northern France.
April 8 » Auguste Deter, the first person to be diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, dies.
July 11 » Murder of Grace Brown by Chester Gillette in the United States, inspiration for Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy.
September 18 » The 1906 Hong Kong typhoon kills an estimated 10,000 people.
November 9 » Theodore Roosevelt is the first sitting President of the United States to make an official trip outside the country. He did so to inspect progress on the Panama Canal.
December 31 » Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar signs the Persian Constitution of 1906.
Day of death January 26, 1962
The temperature on January 26, 1962 was between 2.8 °C and 9.6 °C and averaged 6.7 °C. There was 2.1 mm of rain during 4.7 hours. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
January 11 » An avalanche on Huascarán in Peru causes around 4,000 deaths.
April 21 » The Seattle World's Fair (Century 21 Exposition) opens. It is the first World's Fair in the United States since World War II.
July 13 » In an unprecedented action, British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan dismisses seven members of his Cabinet, marking the effective end of the National Liberals as a distinct force within British politics.
September 12 » President Kennedy delivers his "We choose to go to the Moon" speech at Rice University.
September 15 » The Soviet ship Poltava heads toward Cuba, one of the events that sets into motion the Cuban Missile Crisis.
October 27 » An aircraft carrying Enrico Mattei, post-war Italian administrator, crashes in mysterious circumstances.
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