The temperature on February 28, 1888 was about -5.5 °C. The air pressure was 28 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the north-northeast. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 78%. 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.
January 13 » The National Geographic Society is founded in Washington, D.C.
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.
May 16 » Nikola Tesla delivers a lecture describing the equipment which will allow efficient generation and use of alternating currents to transmit electric power over long distances.
September 8 » In England, the first six Football League matches are played.
September 22 » The first issue of National Geographic Magazine is published.
Day of death January 27, 1965
The temperature on January 27, 1965 was between -3.7 °C and 0.8 °C and averaged -1.0 °C. There was 0.9 mm of rain during 0.6 hours. There was 1.5 hours of sunshine (17%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
February 19 » Colonel Phạm Ngọc Thảo of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam, and a communist spy of the North Vietnamese Viet Minh, along with Generals Lâm Văn Phát and Trần Thiện Khiêm, all Catholics, attempt a coup against the military junta of the Buddhist Nguyễn Khánh.
March 5 » March Intifada: A Leftist uprising erupts in Bahrain against British colonial presence.
March 8 » Thirty-five hundred United States Marines are the first American land combat forces committed during the Vietnam War.
July 25 » Bob Dylan goes electric at the Newport Folk Festival, signaling a major change in folk and rock music.
September 11 » Indo-Pakistani War: The Indian Army captures the town of Burki, just southeast of Lahore.
November 9 » Several U.S. states and parts of Canada are hit by a series of blackouts lasting up to 13 hours in the Northeast blackout of 1965.
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