The temperature on January 4, 1892 was about -0.1 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 93%. Source: KNMI
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.
January 15 » James Naismith publishes the rules of basketball.
June 7 » Homer Plessy is arrested for refusing to leave his seat in the "whites-only" car of a train; he lost the resulting court case, Plessy v. Ferguson.
July 4 » Western Samoa changes the International Date Line, causing Monday (July 4) to occur twice, resulting in a year with 367 days.
July 26 » Dadabhai Naoroji is elected as the first Indian Member of Parliament in Britain.
August 4 » The father and stepmother of Lizzie Borden are found murdered in their Fall River, Massachusetts home. She was tried and acquitted for the crimes a year later.
November 8 » The New Orleans general strike begins, uniting black and white American trade unionists in a successful four-day general strike action for the first time.
Day of death August 11, 1947
The temperature on August 11, 1947 was between 13.4 °C and 26.1 °C and averaged 19.7 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 12.7 hours of sunshine (85%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. Source: KNMI
March 29 » Malagasy Uprising against French colonial rule in Madagascar.
May 31 » Ferenc Nagy, the democratically elected Prime Minister of Hungary, resigns from office after blackmail from the Hungarian Communist Party accusing him of being part of a plot against the state. This grants the Communists effective control of the Hungarian government.
July 10 » Muhammad Ali Jinnah is recommended as the first Governor-General of Pakistan by the British Prime Minister, Clement Attlee.
October 5 » President Truman makes the first televised Oval Office address.
November 13 » The Soviet Union completes development of the AK-47, one of the first proper assault rifles.
November 30 » Civil War in Mandatory Palestine begins, leading up to the creation of the state of Israel.
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