The temperature on November 15, 1891 was about 6.1 °C. There was 2 mm of rain. The air pressure was 3 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the south-southeast. The airpressure was 74 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 94%. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from April 21, 1888 to August 21, 1891 the cabinet Mackay, with Mr. A. baron Mackay (AR) as prime minister.
In The Netherlands , there was from August 21, 1891 to May 9, 1894 the cabinet Van Tienhoven, with Mr. G. van Tienhoven (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
March 10 » Almon Strowger patents the Strowger switch, a device which led to the automation of telephone circuit switching.
March 17 » SSUtopia collides with HMSAnson in the Bay of Gibraltar and sinks, killing 562 of the 880 passengers on board.
May 15 » Pope Leo XIII defends workers' rights and property rights in the encyclical Rerum novarum, the beginning of modern Catholic social teaching.
July 26 » France annexes Tahiti.
August 16 » The Basilica of San Sebastian, Manila, the first all-steel church in Asia, is officially inaugurated and blessed.
August 24 » Thomas Edison patents the motion picture camera.
Day of death February 16, 1969
The temperature on February 16, 1969 was between -4.3 °C and 0.8 °C and averaged -0.9 °C. There was 1.7 mm of rain during 2.9 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. Source: KNMI
January 16 » Czech student Jan Palach commits suicide by self-immolation in Prague, Czechoslovakia, in protest against the Soviets' crushing of the Prague Spring the year before.
May 13 » May 13 Incident involving sectarian violence in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
May 18 » Apollo program: Apollo 10 is launched.
July 20 » A cease fire is announced between Honduras and El Salvador, six days after the beginning of the "Football War".
July 30 » Vietnam War: US President Richard Nixon makes an unscheduled visit to South Vietnam and meets with President Nguyễn Văn Thiệu and U.S. military commanders.
December 8 » Olympic Airways Flight 954 strikes a mountain outside of Keratea, Greece, killing 90 people in the worst crash of a Douglas DC-6 in history.
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