The temperature on May 26, 1885 was about 12.0 °C. There was 8 mm of rain. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 98%. 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 8 » The first government-approved Japanese immigrants arrived in Hawaii.
February 21 » The newly completed Washington Monument is dedicated.
March 24 » Sino-French War: Chinese victory in the Battle of Bang Bo on the Tonkin-Guangxi border.
March 31 » The United Kingdom establishes the Bechuanaland Protectorate.
July 1 » The United States terminates reciprocity and fishery agreement with Canada.
July 6 » Louis Pasteur successfully tests his vaccine against rabies on Joseph Meister, a boy who was bitten by a rabid dog.
Day of marriage August 25, 1910
The temperature on August 25, 1910 was between 13.1 °C and 19.4 °C and averaged 15.8 °C. There was 8.2 hours of sunshine (58%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
February 8 » The Boy Scouts of America is incorporated by William D. Boyce.
March 1 » The deadliest avalanche in United States history buries a Great Northern Railway train in northeastern King County, Washington, killing 96 people.
April 12 » SMSZrínyi, one of the last pre-dreadnought battleships built by the Austro-Hungarian Navy, is launched.
May 31 » The South Africa Act comes into force, establishing the Union of South Africa.
October 22 » Hawley Harvey Crippen (the first felon to be arrested with the help of radio) is convicted of poisoning his wife.
November 7 » The first air freight shipment (from Dayton, Ohio, to Columbus, Ohio) is undertaken by the Wright brothers and department store owner Max Moorehouse.
Day of death March 12, 1958
The temperature on March 12, 1958 was between -7.6 °C and 3.3 °C and averaged -2.1 °C. There was 4.3 hours of sunshine (37%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. Source: KNMI
April 21 » United Airlines Flight 736 collides into a United States Air Force fighter jet near Arden, Nevada in what is now Enterprise, Nevada.
May 27 » First flight of the McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II.
October 1 » The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics is replaced by NASA.
November 12 » A team of rock climbers led by Warren Harding completes the first ascent of The Nose on El Capitan in Yosemite Valley.
November 28 » First successful flight of SM-65 Atlas; the first operational intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), developed by the United States and the first member of the Atlas rocket family.
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