The temperature on September 20, 1885 was about 18.6 °C. The air pressure was 3 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 59%. 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 21 » The newly completed Washington Monument is dedicated.
April 30 » Governor of New York David B. Hill signs legislation creating the Niagara Reservation, New York's first state park, ensuring that Niagara Falls will not be devoted solely to industrial and commercial use.
June 17 » The Statue of Liberty arrives in New York Harbor.
July 20 » The Football Association legalizes professionalism in association football under pressure from the British Football Association.
July 23 » President Ulysses S. Grant dies of throat cancer.
September 12 » Arbroath 36–0 Bon Accord, a world record scoreline in professional Association football.
Day of death August 25, 1952
The temperature on August 25, 1952 was between 11.9 °C and 21.6 °C and averaged 15.9 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 3.9 hours of sunshine (28%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
May 3 » The Kentucky Derby is televised nationally for the first time, on the CBS network.
June 13 » Catalina affair: A Swedish Douglas DC-3 is shot down by a Soviet MiG-15 fighter.
June 17 » Guatemala passes Decree 900, ordering the redistribution of uncultivated land.
November 25 » Agatha Christie's murder-mystery play The Mousetrap opens at the Ambassadors Theatre in London. It will become the longest continuously-running play in history.
December 1 » The New York Daily News reports the news of Christine Jorgensen, the first notable case of sex reassignment surgery.
December 30 » An RAF Avro Lancaster bomber crashed in Luqa, Malta after an engine failure, killing three crew members and a civilian on the ground.
Day of burial August 28, 1952
The temperature on August 28, 1952 was between 9.6 °C and 19.9 °C and averaged 16.1 °C. There was 10.4 hours of sunshine (75%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
February 6 » Elizabeth II becomes Queen of the United Kingdom and her other Realms and Territories and Head of the Commonwealth upon the death of her father, George VI. At the exact moment of succession, she was in a tree house at the Treetops Hotel in Kenya.
February 20 » Emmett Ashford becomes the first African-American umpire in organized baseball by being authorized to be a substitute umpire in the Southwestern International League.
February 21 » The British government, under Winston Churchill, abolishes identity cards in the UK to "set the people free".
September 6 » A prototype aircraft crashes at the Farnborough Airshow in Hampshire, England, killing 29 spectators and the two on board.
December 24 » First flight of Britain's Handley Page Victor strategic bomber.
December 30 » An RAF Avro Lancaster bomber crashed in Luqa, Malta after an engine failure, killing three crew members and a civilian on the ground.
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