The temperature on July 1, 1888 was about 12.7 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 21 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the west-northwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 80%. 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 11 » The Great Blizzard of 1888 begins along the eastern seaboard of the United States, shutting down commerce and killing more than 400.
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.
June 15 » Crown Prince Wilhelm becomes Kaiser Wilhelm II; he will be the last Emperor of the German Empire. Due to the death of his predecessors Wilhelm I and Frederick III, 1888 is the Year of the Three Emperors.
June 29 » George Edward Gouraud records Handel's Israel in Egypt onto a phonograph cylinder, thought for many years to be the oldest known recording of music.
August 31 » Mary Ann Nichols is murdered. She is the first of Jack the Ripper's confirmed victims.
Day of death September 6, 1938
The temperature on September 6, 1938 was between 6.7 °C and 18.1 °C and averaged 12.6 °C. There was 8.4 hours of sunshine (63%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. Source: KNMI
June 7 » The Douglas DC-4E makes its first test flight.
June 23 » The Civil Aeronautics Act is signed into law, forming the Civil Aeronautics Authority in the United States.
July 20 » The United States Department of Justice files suit in New York City against the motion picture industry charging violations of the Sherman Antitrust Act in regards to the studio system. The case would eventually result in a break-up of the industry in 1948.
October 10 » Abiding by the Munich Agreement, Czechoslovakia completes its withdrawal from the Sudetenland.
October 30 » Orson Welles broadcasts his radio play of H. G. Wells's The War of the Worlds, causing anxiety in some of the audience in the United States.
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