The temperature on August 3, 1887 was about 18.0 °C. The air pressure was 7 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the north-northwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 62%. 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 2 » In Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania the first Groundhog Day is observed.
April 28 » A week after being arrested by the Prussian Secret Police, French police inspector Guillaume Schnaebelé is released on order of William I, German Emperor, defusing a possible war.
May 9 » Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show opens in London.
June 18 » The Reinsurance Treaty between Germany and Russia is signed.
July 4 » The founder of Pakistan, Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, joins Sindh-Madrasa-tul-Islam, Karachi.
July 6 » David Kalākaua, monarch of the Kingdom of Hawaii, is forced to sign the Bayonet Constitution, which transfers much of the king's authority to the Legislature of the Kingdom of Hawaii.
Day of marriage February 3, 1921
The temperature on February 3, 1921 was between -1.7 °C and 6.0 °C and averaged 1.6 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. There was 2.0 hours of sunshine (22%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from September 9, 1918 to September 18, 1922 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck I, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
February 27 » The International Working Union of Socialist Parties is founded in Vienna.
March 18 » The Kronstadt rebellion is suppressed by the Red Army.
March 19 » Irish War of Independence: One of the biggest engagements of the war takes place at Crossbarry, County Cork. About 100 Irish Republican Army (IRA) volunteers escape an attempt by over 1,300 British forces to encircle them.
March 21 » The New Economic Policy is implemented by the Bolshevik Party in response to the economic failure as a result of war communism.
July 11 » Former president of the United States William Howard Taft is sworn in as 10th chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, becoming the only person ever to hold both offices.
December 6 » The Anglo-Irish Treaty is signed in London by British and Irish representatives.
Day of death January 2, 1959
The temperature on January 2, 1959 was between 1.0 °C and 8.5 °C and averaged 4.2 °C. There was 22.3 mm of rain during 10.6 hours. There was 1.0 hours of sunshine (13%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
February 3 » Rock and roll musicians Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J. P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson are killed in a plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa.
July 15 » The steel strike of 1959 begins, leading to significant importation of foreign steel for the first time in United States history.
August 14 » Founding and first official meeting of the American Football League.
September 14 » The Soviet probe Luna 2 crashes onto the Moon, becoming the first man-made object to reach it.
September 27 » Typhoon Vera kills nearly 5,000 people in Japan.
October 7 » The Soviet probe Luna 3 transmits the first-ever photographs of the far side of the Moon.
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