The temperature on July 28, 1891 was about 17.6 °C. The air pressure was 6 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 67%. 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.
February 15 » Allmänna Idrottsklubben (AIK) (Swedish Sports Club) is founded.
April 1 » The Wrigley Company is founded in Chicago, Illinois.
May 16 » The International Electrotechnical Exhibition opens in Frankfurt, Germany, and will feature the world's first long-distance transmission of high-power, three-phase electric current (the most common form today).
May 20 » History of cinema: The first public display of Thomas Edison's prototype kinetoscope.
July 26 » France annexes Tahiti.
August 24 » Thomas Edison patents the motion picture camera.
Day of marriage July 18, 1914
The temperature on July 18, 1914 was between 10.6 °C and 24.1 °C and averaged 18.3 °C. There was 11.4 hours of sunshine (70%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from August 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
April 23 » First baseball game at Wrigley Field, then known as Weeghman Park, in Chicago.
August 14 » World War I: Start of the Battle of Lorraine, an unsuccessful French offensive designed to recover the lost province of Moselle from Germany.
August 20 » World War I: Brussels is captured during the German invasion of Belgium.
September 17 » Andrew Fisher becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the third time.
September 17 » World War I: The Race to the Sea begins.
November 9 » SMSEmden is sunk by HMASSydney in the Battle of Cocos.
Day of death March 20, 1966
The temperature on March 20, 1966 was between -4 °C and 9.9 °C and averaged 2.5 °C. There was 10.1 hours of sunshine (83%). The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
January 17 » Palomares incident: A B-52 bomber collides with a KC-135 Stratotanker over Spain, killing seven airmen, and dropping three 70-kiloton nuclear bombs near the town of Palomares and another one into the sea.
April 26 » The magnitude 5.1 Tashkent earthquake affects the largest city in Soviet Central Asia with a maximum MSK intensity of VII (Very strong). Tashkent is mostly destroyed and 15–200 are killed.
June 8 » Topeka, Kansas, is devastated by a tornado that registers as an "F5" on the Fujita scale: The first to exceed US$100million in damages. Sixteen people are killed, hundreds more injured, and thousands of homes damaged or destroyed.
September 6 » Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd, the architect of apartheid, is stabbed to death in Cape Town, South Africa during a parliamentary meeting.
October 4 » Basutoland becomes independent from the United Kingdom and is renamed Lesotho.
November 24 » Bulgarian TABSO Flight 101 crashes near Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, killing all 82 people on board.
Day of burial March 24, 1966
The temperature on March 24, 1966 was between 0.5 °C and 7.3 °C and averaged 3.4 °C. There was 5.5 mm of rain during 2.7 hours. There was 3.6 hours of sunshine (29%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
January 15 » The First Nigerian Republic, led by Abubakar Tafawa Balewa is overthrown in a military coup d'état.
February 3 » The Soviet Union's Luna 9 becomes the first spacecraft to make a soft landing on the Moon, and the first spacecraft to take pictures from the surface of the Moon.
March 5 » BOAC Flight 911, a Boeing 707 aircraft, breaks apart in mid-air due to clear-air turbulence and crashes into Mount Fuji, Japan, killing all 124 people on board.
September 9 » The National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act is signed into law by U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson.
September 12 » Gemini 11, the penultimate mission of NASA's Gemini program, and the current human altitude record holder (except for the Apollo lunar missions).
December 18 » Saturn's moon Epimetheus is discovered by astronomer Richard Walker.
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