The temperature on January 3, 1889 was about -3.4 °C. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the east. The airpressure was 78 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 96%. Source: KNMI
March 23 » The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community is established by Mirza Ghulam Ahmad in Qadian, British India.
April 1 » The University of Northern Colorado was established, as the Colorado State Normal School.
May 11 » An attack upon a U.S. Army paymaster and escort results in the theft of over $28,000 and the award of two Medals of Honor.
June 3 » The first long-distance electric power transmission line in the United States is completed, running 14 miles (23km) between a generator at Willamette Falls and downtown Portland, Oregon.
July 8 » The first issue of The Wall Street Journal is published.
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.
Day of marriage June 6, 1912
The temperature on June 6, 1912 was between 10.3 °C and 18.0 °C and averaged 13.7 °C. There was 2.9 mm of rain. There was 5.0 hours of sunshine (30%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
February 12 » The Xuantong Emperor, the last Emperor of China, abdicates.
May 18 » The first Indian film, Shree Pundalik by Dadasaheb Torne, is released in Mumbai.
September 4 » Albanian rebels succeed in their revolt when the Ottoman Empire agrees to fulfill their demands
November 5 » Woodrow Wilson is elected the 28th President of the United States, defeating incumbent William Howard Taft.
December 6 » The Nefertiti Bust is discovered.
December 8 » Leaders of the German Empire hold an Imperial War Council to discuss the possibility that war might break out.
Day of death May 27, 1984
The temperature on May 27, 1984 was between 7.8 °C and 14.8 °C and averaged 11.8 °C. There was 2.9 mm of rain during 6.1 hours. There was 0.3 hours of sunshine (2%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, November 4, 1982 to Monday, July 14, 1986 the cabinet Lubbers I, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
June 18 » A major clash between about 5,000 police and a similar number of miners takes place at Orgreave, South Yorkshire, during the 1984–85 UK miners' strike.
August 5 » A Biman Bangladesh Airlines Fokker F27 Friendship crashes on approach to Zia International Airport, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, killing all 49 people on board.
September 5 » Western Australia becomes the last Australian state to abolish capital punishment.
October 12 » The Provisional Irish Republican Army fail to assassinate Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and her cabinet. The bomb kills five people and wounds 31.
November 2 » Capital punishment: Velma Barfield becomes the first woman executed in the United States since 1962.
December 23 » After experiencing an engine fire, Aeroflot Flight 3519 attempts to make an emergency landing at Krasnoyarsk International Airport but crashes, killing 110 of the 111 people on board.
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