The temperature on February 25, 1885 was about 7.3 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 88%. 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.
April 3 » Gottlieb Daimler is granted a German patent for his engine design.
June 3 » In the last military engagement fought on Canadian soil, the Cree leader, Big Bear, escapes the North-West Mounted Police.
July 1 » The Congo Free State is established by King Leopold II of Belgium.
July 23 » President Ulysses S. Grant dies of throat cancer.
August 29 » Gottlieb Daimler patents the world's first internal combustion motorcycle, the Reitwagen.
November 28 » Bulgarian victory in the Serbo-Bulgarian War preserves the Unification of Bulgaria.
Day of death June 23, 1962
The temperature on June 23, 1962 was between 9.1 °C and 19.6 °C and averaged 15.4 °C. There was 10.6 hours of sunshine (63%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
February 8 » Charonne massacre. Nine trade unionists are killed by French police at the instigation of Nazi collaborator Maurice Papon, then chief of the Paris Prefecture of Police.
March 19 » The Algerian War of Independence ends.
May 27 » The Centralia mine fire is ignited in the town's landfill above a coal mine.
August 17 » Peter Fechter is shot and bleeds to death while trying to cross the new Berlin Wall.
September 20 » James Meredith, an African American, is temporarily barred from entering the University of Mississippi.
September 30 » James Meredith enters the University of Mississippi, defying racial segregation rules.
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