The temperature on March 8, 1884 was about 2.8 °C. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 96%. 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 20 » Pope Leo XIII publishes the encyclical Humanum genus.
May 1 » Moses Fleetwood Walker becomes the first black person to play in a professional baseball game in the United States.
July 3 » Dow Jones & Company publishes its first stock average.
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.
December 6 » The Washington Monument in Washington, D.C., is completed.
Day of death April 21, 1954
The temperature on April 21, 1954 was between 4.6 °C and 13.7 °C and averaged 8.4 °C. There was 8.7 hours of sunshine (61%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. Source: KNMI
January 7 » Georgetown-IBM experiment: The first public demonstration of a machine translation system is held in New York at the head office of IBM.
June 24 » First Indochina War: Battle of Mang Yang Pass: Viet Minh troops belonging to the 803rd Regiment ambush G.M.100 of France in An Khê.
July 20 » Germany: Otto John, head of West Germany's secret service, defects to East Germany.
July 21 » First Indochina War: The Geneva Conference partitions Vietnam into North Vietnam and South Vietnam.
October 15 » Hurricane Hazel devastates the eastern seaboard of North America, killing 95 and causing massive floods as far north as Toronto.
December 2 » Cold War: The United States Senate votes 65 to 22 to censure Joseph McCarthy for "conduct that tends to bring the Senate into dishonor and disrepute".
Day of burial April 24, 1954
The temperature on April 24, 1954 was between 0.2 °C and 12.4 °C and averaged 6.8 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 13.0 hours of sunshine (90%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north. Source: KNMI
February 18 » The first Church of Scientology is established in Los Angeles.
April 1 » United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower authorizes the creation of the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado.
April 18 » Gamal Abdel Nasser seizes power in Egypt.
July 5 » Elvis Presley records his first single, "That's All Right", at Sun Records in Memphis, Tennessee.
July 7 » Elvis Presley makes his radio debut when WHBQ Memphis played his first recording for Sun Records, "That's All Right".
November 30 » In Sylacauga, Alabama, United States, the Hodges meteorite crashes through a roof and hits a woman taking an afternoon nap; this is the only documented case in the Western Hemisphere of a human being hit by a rock from space.
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