The temperature on May 19, 1885 was about 12.5 °C. There was 2 mm of rain. The air pressure was 4 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the west-northwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 69%. 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.
March 19 » Louis Riel declares a provisional government in Saskatchewan, beginning the North-West Rebellion.
March 30 » The Battle for Kushka triggers the Panjdeh Incident which nearly gives rise to war between the Russian and British Empire.
July 6 » Louis Pasteur successfully tests his vaccine against rabies on Joseph Meister, a boy who was bitten by a rabid dog.
July 23 » President Ulysses S. Grant dies of throat cancer.
September 6 » Eastern Rumelia declares its union with Bulgaria, thus accomplishing Bulgarian unification.
November 16 » Canadian rebel leader of the Métis and "Father of Manitoba" Louis Riel is executed for treason.
Day of marriage October 4, 1906
The temperature on October 4, 1906 was between 10.7 °C and 16.7 °C and averaged 12.8 °C. There was 2.0 hours of sunshine (17%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from August 17, 1905 to February 11, 1908 the cabinet De Meester, with Mr. Th. de Meester (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
February 11 » Pope Pius X publishes the encyclical Vehementer Nos.
March 15 » Rolls-Royce Limited is incorporated.
June 8 » Theodore Roosevelt signs the Antiquities Act into law, authorizing the President to restrict the use of certain parcels of public land with historical or conservation value.
September 20 » The Cunard Line's RMSMauretania is launched at Newcastle upon Tyne, England.
September 24 » U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt proclaims Devils Tower in Wyoming as the nation's first National Monument.
December 15 » The London Underground's Great Northern, Piccadilly and Brompton Railway opens.
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