The temperature on August 26, 1888 was about 22.9 °C. The air pressure was 4 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 64%. 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.
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.
March 23 » In England, The Football League, the world's oldest professional association football league, meets for the first time.
May 16 » Nikola Tesla delivers a lecture describing the equipment which will allow efficient generation and use of alternating currents to transmit electric power over long distances.
June 29 » George Edward Gouraud records Handel's Israel in Egypt onto a phonograph cylinder, thought for many years to be the oldest known recording of music.
August 14 » An audio recording of English composer Arthur Sullivan's "The Lost Chord", one of the first recordings of music ever made, is played during a press conference introducing Thomas Edison's phonograph in London, England.
August 21 » The first successful adding machine in the United States is patented by William Seward Burroughs.
October 17 » Thomas Edison files a patent for the Optical Phonograph (the first movie).
Day of marriage April 15, 1917
The temperature on April 15, 1917 was between 2.7 °C and 10.8 °C and averaged 5.8 °C. There was 0.7 hours of sunshine (5%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from August 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
July 27 » World War I: The Allies reach the Yser Canal at the Battle of Passchendaele.
July 31 » World War I: The Battle of Passchendaele begins near Ypres in West Flanders, Belgium.
October 25 » Old Style date of the October Revolution in Russia.
November 8 » The first Council of People's Commissars is formed, including Vladimir Lenin, Leon Trotsky and Joseph Stalin.
December 9 » World War I: Field Marshal Allenby captures Jerusalem, Palestine.
December 12 » Father Edward J. Flanagan founds Boys Town as a farm village for wayward boys.
Day of death July 4, 1956
The temperature on July 4, 1956 was between 13.7 °C and 19.3 °C and averaged 15.9 °C. There was 4.0 mm of rain during 4.8 hours. There was 2.1 hours of sunshine (13%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
March 1 » Formation of the East German Nationale Volksarmee.
March 20 » Tunisia gains independence from France.
September 9 » Elvis Presley appears on The Ed Sullivan Show for the first time.
September 27 » USAF Captain Milburn G. Apt becomes the first person to exceed Mach 3. Shortly thereafter, the Bell X-2 goes out of control and Captain Apt is killed.
October 21 » The Mau Mau Uprising in Kenya is defeated.
November 1 » The Springhill mining disaster in Springhill, Nova Scotia kills 39 miners; 88 are rescued.
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