The temperature on November 9, 1889 was about 11.3 °C. There was 1 mm of rain. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 98%. Source: KNMI
February 11 » Meiji Constitution of Japan is adopted.
May 2 » Menelik II, Emperor of Ethiopia, signs the Treaty of Wuchale, giving Italy control over Eritrea.
May 31 » Johnstown Flood: Over 2,200 people die after a dam fails and sends a 60-foot (18-meter) wall of water over the town of Johnstown, Pennsylvania.
June 3 » The first long-distance electric power transmission line in the United States is completed, running 14 miles (23km) between a generator at Willamette Falls and downtown Portland, Oregon.
June 26 » Bangui is founded by Albert Dolisie and Alfred Uzac in what was then the upper reaches of the French Congo.
September 28 » The General Conference on Weights and Measures (CGPM) defines the length of a meter.
Day of death January 2, 1965
The temperature on January 2, 1965 was between -0.8 °C and 5.5 °C and averaged 1.6 °C. There was 2.3 mm of rain during 1.4 hours. There was 3.1 hours of sunshine (40%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
April 6 » Launch of Early Bird, the first commercial communications satellite to be placed in geosynchronous orbit.
May 18 » Israeli spy Eli Cohen is hanged in Damascus, Syria.
September 7 » During an Indo-Pakistani War, China announces that it will reinforce its troops on the Indian border.
September 17 » The Battle of Chawinda is fought between Pakistan and India.
October 17 » The 1964–65 New York World's Fair closes after two years and more than 51 million attendees.
November 2 » Norman Morrison, a 31-year-old Quaker, sets himself on fire in front of the river entrance to the Pentagon to protest the use of napalm in the Vietnam war.
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