The temperature on September 18, 1888 was about 11.7 °C. The air pressure was 4 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the northeast. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 91%. 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 11 » The Great Blizzard of 1888 begins along the eastern seaboard of the United States, shutting down commerce and killing more than 400.
June 5 » The Rio de la Plata earthquake takes place.
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 21 » The first successful adding machine in the United States is patented by William Seward Burroughs.
October 15 » The "From Hell" letter allegedly sent by Jack the Ripper is received by investigators.
October 17 » Thomas Edison files a patent for the Optical Phonograph (the first movie).
Day of marriage August 5, 1920
The temperature on August 5, 1920 was between 10.2 °C and 18.0 °C and averaged 15.1 °C. There was 1.1 mm of rain. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from September 9, 1918 to September 18, 1922 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck I, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
January 7 » The New York State Assembly refuses to seat five duly elected Socialist assemblymen.
March 13 » The Kapp Putsch briefly ousts the Weimar Republic government from Berlin.
July 12 » The Soviet–Lithuanian Peace Treaty is signed, by which Soviet Russia recognizes the independence of Lithuania.
July 29 » Construction of the Link River Dam begins as part of the Klamath Reclamation Project.
October 30 » The Communist Party of Australia is founded in Sydney.
November 28 » Irish War of Independence: Kilmichael Ambush: The Irish Republican Army ambush a convoy of British Auxiliaries and kill seventeen.
Day of death November 28, 1938
The temperature on November 28, 1938 was between 3.8 °C and 7.4 °C and averaged 6.0 °C. There was 8.1 mm of rain during 7.1 hours. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
February 4 » Adolf Hitler appoints himself as head of the Armed Forces High Command.
May 26 » In the United States, the House Un-American Activities Committee begins its first session.
July 10 » Howard Hughes begins a 91-hour airplane flight around the world that will set a new record.
July 28 » Hawaii Clipper disappears between Guam and Manila as the first loss of an airliner in trans-Pacific China Clipper service.
November 9 » The Nazi German diplomat Ernst vom Rath dies from gunshot wounds by Herschel Grynszpan, an act which the Nazis used as an excuse to instigate the 1938 national pogrom, also known as Kristallnacht.
November 16 » LSD is first synthesized by Albert Hofmann from ergotamine at the Sandoz Laboratories in Basel.
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