The temperature on January 5, 1891 was about -3.7 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the north-northeast. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 93%. 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.
May 5 » The Music Hall in New York City (later known as Carnegie Hall) has its grand opening and first public performance, with Tchaikovsky as the guest conductor.
May 15 » Pope Leo XIII defends workers' rights and property rights in the encyclical Rerum novarum, the beginning of modern Catholic social teaching.
May 20 » History of cinema: The first public display of Thomas Edison's prototype kinetoscope.
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 18 » Major hurricane strikes Martinique, leaving 700 dead.
Day of marriage August 3, 1911
The temperature on August 3, 1911 was between 13.6 °C and 23.8 °C and averaged 19.0 °C. There was 3.5 hours of sunshine (23%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. Source: KNMI
May 15 » In Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey v. United States, the United States Supreme Court declares Standard Oil to be an "unreasonable" monopoly under the Sherman Antitrust Act and orders the company to be broken up.
June 16 » IBM founded as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company in Endicott, New York.
September 23 » Pilot Earle Ovington makes the first official airmail delivery in America under the authority of the United States Post Office Department
September 29 » Italy declares war on the Ottoman Empire.
October 9 » An accidental bomb explosion triggers the Wuchang Uprising against the Chinese monarchy.
October 13 » Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, becomes the first Governor General of Canada of royal descent.
Day of death January 2, 1980
The temperature on January 2, 1980 was between -2.1 °C and 2.9 °C and averaged -0.4 °C. There was 0.6 mm of rain during 0.2 hours. There was 2.7 hours of sunshine (34%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, December 19, 1977 to Friday, September 11, 1981 the cabinet Van Agt I, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA/KVP) as prime minister.
March 3 » The USSNautilus is decommissioned and stricken from the Naval Vessel Register.
April 12 » Transbrasil Flight 303, a Boeing 727, crashes on approach to Hercílio Luz International Airport, in Florianópolis, Brazil. Fifty-five out of the 58 people on board are killed.
May 18 » Students in Gwangju, South Korea begin demonstrations calling for democratic reforms.
August 2 » A bomb explodes at the railway station in Bologna, Italy, killing 85 people and wounding more than 200.
September 12 » Military coup in Turkey.
November 21 » A deadly fire breaks out at the MGM Grand Hotel in Paradise, Nevada (now Bally's Las Vegas). Eighty-seven people are killed and more than 650 are injured in the worst disaster in Nevada history.
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