The temperature on October 3, 1887 was about 13.9 °C. The air pressure was 8 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the north-northeast. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 75%. 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.
February 2 » In Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania the first Groundhog Day is observed.
February 8 » The Dawes Act authorizes the President of the United States to survey Native American tribal land and divide it into individual allotments.
May 9 » Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show opens in London.
October 1 » Balochistan is conquered by the British Empire.
November 9 » The United States receives rights to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
November 13 » Bloody Sunday clashes in central London.
Day of death February 8, 1960
The temperature on February 8, 1960 was between -7.4 °C and 2.3 °C and averaged -2.5 °C. There was 8.5 hours of sunshine (90%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
January 14 » The Reserve Bank of Australia, the country's central bank and banknote issuing authority, is established.
April 4 » France agrees to grant independence to the Mali Federation, a union of Senegal and French Sudan.
May 1 » Cold War: U-2 incident: Francis Gary Powers, in a Lockheed U-2 spyplane, is shot down over the Sverdlovsk Oblast, Soviet Union, sparking a diplomatic crisis.
June 23 » The United States Food and Drug Administration declares Enovid to be the first officially approved combined oral contraceptive pill in the world.
June 26 » The former British Protectorate of British Somaliland gains its independence as Somaliland.
August 15 » Republic of the Congo (Brazzaville) becomes independent from France.
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