The temperature on October 26, 1890 was about 4.1 °C. There was 3 mm of rain. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 97%. Source: KNMI
January 25 » Nellie Bly completes her round-the-world journey in 72 days.
July 3 » Idaho is admitted as the 43rd U.S. state.
July 10 » Wyoming is admitted as the 44th U.S. state.
September 12 » Salisbury, Rhodesia, is founded.
September 25 » The United States Congress establishes Sequoia National Park.
October 12 » Uddevalla Suffrage Association is formed.
Day of death May 8, 1965
The temperature on May 8, 1965 was between 10.4 °C and 13.8 °C and averaged 11.9 °C. There was 12.4 mm of rain during 7.5 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
February 18 » The Gambia becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
March 24 » Images from the Ranger 9 lunar probe are broadcast live on network television.
May 1 » Cross-Strait relations: Battle of Dong-Yin, a naval conflict between the Republic of China and the People's Republic of China, takes place.
July 16 » South Vietnamese Colonel Phạm Ngọc Thảo, a formerly undetected communist spy and double agent, is hunted down and killed by unknown individuals after being sentenced to death in absentia for a February 1965 coup attempt against Nguyễn Khánh.
October 21 » Comet Ikeya–Seki approaches perihelion, passing 450,000 kilometers (279,617 miles) from the sun.
November 9 » A Catholic Worker Movement member, Roger Allen LaPorte, protesting against the Vietnam War, sets himself on fire in front of the United Nations building.
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