The temperature on August 8, 1911 was between 11.3 °C and 27.9 °C and averaged 20.8 °C. There was 13.2 hours of sunshine (87%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. Source: KNMI
January 26 » Glenn Curtiss flies the first successful American seaplane.
May 31 » The President of Mexico Porfirio Díaz flees the country during the Mexican Revolution.
June 22 » George V and Mary of Teck are crowned King and Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
July 24 » Hiram Bingham III re-discovers Machu Picchu, "the Lost City of the Incas".
August 24 » Manuel de Arriaga is elected and sworn-in as the first President of Portugal.
October 9 » An accidental bomb explosion triggers the Wuchang Uprising against the Chinese monarchy.
Day of death October 16, 1990
The temperature on October 16, 1990 was between 8.0 °C and 19.1 °C and averaged 14.9 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 6.7 hours of sunshine (63%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, November 7, 1989 to Monday, August 22, 1994 the cabinet Lubbers III, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
January 1 » David Dinkins is sworn in as New York City's first black mayor.
January 24 » Japan launches Hiten, the country's first lunar probe, the first robotic lunar probe since the Soviet Union's Luna 24 in 1976, and the first lunar probe launched by a country other than Soviet Union or the United States.
February 14 » Ninety-two people are killed when Indian Airlines Flight 605 crashes in Bangalore, India.
June 19 » The Communist Party of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic is founded in Moscow.
July 26 » The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 is signed into law by President George H.W. Bush.
August 23 » Saddam Hussein appears on Iraqi state television with a number of Western "guests" (actually hostages) to try to prevent the Gulf War.
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