The temperature on May 19, 1904 was between 5.2 °C and 13.0 °C and averaged 9.1 °C. There was 8.9 hours of sunshine (56%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. Source: KNMI
January 8 » The Blackstone Library is dedicated, marking the beginning of the Chicago Public Library system.
February 22 » The United Kingdom sells a meteorological station on the South Orkney Islands to Argentina; the islands are subsequently claimed by the United Kingdom in 1908.
April 8 » The French Third Republic and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland sign the Entente cordiale.
August 23 » The automobile tire chain is patented.
October 4 » The IFK Göteborg football club is founded in Sweden.
November 16 » English engineer John Ambrose Fleming receives a patent for the thermionic valve (vacuum tube).
Day of death August 6, 1985
The temperature on August 6, 1985 was between 10.4 °C and 18.5 °C and averaged 14.3 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 10.2 hours of sunshine (67%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west. 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.
March 20 » Canadian paraplegic athlete and humanitarian Rick Hansen begins his circumnavigation of the globe in a wheelchair in the name of spinal cord injury medical research.
March 31 » The first WrestleMania, the biggest wrestling event from the WWE (then the WWF), takes place in Madison Square Garden in New York City.
July 10 » The Greenpeace vessel Rainbow Warrior is bombed and sunk in Auckland harbour by French DGSE agents, killing Fernando Pereira.
October 7 » The Mameyes landslide kills almost 200 people in Puerto Rico.
November 6 » In Colombia, leftist guerrillas of the 19th of April Movement seize control of the Palace of Justice in Bogotá.
December 27 » Palestinian guerrillas kill eighteen people inside the airports of Rome, Italy, and Vienna, Austria.
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