The temperature on April 1, 1889 was about 4.7 °C. There was 2 mm of rain. The air pressure was 16 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 92%. Source: KNMI
January 15 » The Coca-Cola Company, then known as the Pemberton Medicine Company, is incorporated in Atlanta.
January 30 » Archduke Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria, heir to the Austro-Hungarian crown, is found dead with his mistress Baroness Mary Vetsera in the Mayerling.
November 2 » North Dakota and South Dakota are admitted as the 39th and 40th U.S. states.
November 8 » Montana is admitted as the 41st U.S. state.
November 14 » Pioneering female journalist Nellie Bly (aka Elizabeth Cochrane) begins a successful attempt to travel around the world in less than 80 days. She completes the trip in 72 days.
November 23 » The first jukebox goes into operation at the Palais Royale Saloon in San Francisco.
Day of marriage January 24, 1912
The temperature on January 24, 1912 was between 1.7 °C and 9.0 °C and averaged 6.1 °C. There was 2.7 mm of rain. There was 3.2 hours of sunshine (37%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. Source: KNMI
January 6 » German geophysicist Alfred Wegener first presents his theory of continental drift.
January 23 » The International Opium Convention is signed at The Hague.
April 16 » Harriet Quimby becomes the first woman to fly an airplane across the English Channel.
June 4 » Massachusetts becomes the first state of the United States to set a minimum wage.
September 28 » Corporal Frank S. Scott of the United States Army becomes the first enlisted man to die in an airplane crash.
October 24 » First Balkan War: The Battle of Kirk Kilisse concludes with a Bulgarian victory against the Ottoman Empire.
Day of death October 3, 1964
The temperature on October 3, 1964 was between 4.5 °C and 17.1 °C and averaged 10.5 °C. There was 9.6 hours of sunshine (83%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. Source: KNMI
May 5 » The Council of Europe declares May 5 as Europe Day.
June 21 » Three civil rights workers, Andrew Goodman, James Chaney and Michael Schwerner, are murdered in Neshoba County, Mississippi, United States, by members of the Ku Klux Klan.
August 13 » Peter Allen and Gwynne Evans are hanged for the murder of John Alan West becoming the last people executed in the United Kingdom.
October 14 » The Soviet Presidium and the Communist Party Central Committee each vote to accept Nikita Khrushchev's "voluntary" request to retire from his offices.
October 22 » Jean-Paul Sartre is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, but turns down the honor.
December 11 » Che Guevara speaks at the United Nations General Assembly in New York City.
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