The temperature on January 6, 1888 was about 2.5 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain. The air pressure was 10 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 100%. 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.
In The Netherlands , there was from April 21, 1888 to August 21, 1891 the cabinet Mackay, with Mr. A. baron Mackay (AR) as prime minister.
March 15 » Start of the Anglo-Tibetan War of 1888.
March 23 » In England, The Football League, the world's oldest professional association football league, meets for the first time.
April 3 » The first of eleven unsolved brutal murders of women committed in or near the impoverished Whitechapel district in the East End of London, occurs.
August 31 » Mary Ann Nichols is murdered. She is the first of Jack the Ripper's confirmed victims.
September 22 » The first issue of National Geographic Magazine is published.
October 21 » Foundation of the Swiss Social Democratic Party.
Day of marriage November 15, 1912
The temperature on November 15, 1912 was between 4.3 °C and 10.8 °C and averaged 6.9 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. Source: KNMI
March 6 » Italo-Turkish War: Italian forces become the first to use airships in war, as two dirigibles drop bombs on Turkish troops encamped at Janzur, from an altitude of 6,000 feet.
April 15 » The British passenger liner RMSTitanic sinks in the North Atlantic at 2:20a.m., two hours and forty minutes after hitting an iceberg. Only 710 of 2,227 passengers and crew on board survive.
April 17 » Russian troops open fire on striking goldfield workers in northeast Siberia, killing at least 150.
April 18 » The Cunard liner RMSCarpathia brings 705 survivors from the RMSTitanic to New York City.
September 28 » Corporal Frank S. Scott of the United States Army becomes the first enlisted man to die in an airplane crash.
December 6 » The Nefertiti Bust is discovered.
Day of death April 20, 1968
The temperature on April 20, 1968 was between 10.1 °C and 26.6 °C and averaged 17.7 °C. There was 7.2 hours of sunshine (51%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east. Source: KNMI
May 25 » The Gateway Arch in St. Louis, Missouri, is dedicated.
June 9 » U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson declares a national day of mourning following the assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy.
October 16 » Kingston, Jamaica is rocked by the Rodney riots, inspired by the barring of Walter Rodney from the country.
November 11 » Vietnam War: Operation Commando Hunt initiated. The goal is to interdict men and supplies on the Ho Chi Minh trail, through Laos into South Vietnam.
November 22 » The Beatles release The Beatles (known popularly as The White Album).
December 27 » Apollo program: Apollo 8 splashes down in the Pacific Ocean, ending the first orbital manned mission to the Moon.
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