The temperature on March 2, 1887 was about 4.2 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the west-northwest. The airpressure was 78 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 90%. 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.
February 2 » In Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania the first Groundhog Day is observed.
April 4 » Argonia, Kansas elects Susanna M. Salter as the first female mayor in the United States.
April 10 » On Easter Sunday, Pope Leo XIII authorizes the establishment of the Catholic University of America.
April 28 » A week after being arrested by the Prussian Secret Police, French police inspector Guillaume Schnaebelé is released on order of William I, German Emperor, defusing a possible war.
May 9 » Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show opens in London.
June 8 » Herman Hollerith applies for US patent #395,781 for the 'Art of Compiling Statistics', which was his punched card calculator.
Day of marriage April 8, 1911
The temperature on April 8, 1911 was between -0.5 °C and 11.6 °C and averaged 5.7 °C. There was 5.6 hours of sunshine (42%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
March 29 » The M1911 .45 ACP pistol becomes the official U.S. Army side arm.
April 8 » Dutch physicist Heike Kamerlingh Onnes discovers superconductivity.
July 4 » A massive heat wave strikes the northeastern United States, killing 380 people in eleven days and breaking temperature records in several cities.
September 1 » The armored cruiser Georgios Averof is commissioned into the Greek Navy. It now serves as a museum ship.
September 23 » Pilot Earle Ovington makes the first official airmail delivery in America under the authority of the United States Post Office Department
September 25 » An explosion of badly degraded propellant charges on board the French battleship Liberté detonates the forward ammunition magazines and destroys the ship.
Day of death January 17, 1956
The temperature on January 17, 1956 was between 2.5 °C and 6.9 °C and averaged 4.7 °C. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
June 28 » in Poznań, workers from HCP factory go to the streets, sparking one of the first major protests against communist government both in Poland and Europe.
July 26 » Following the World Bank's refusal to fund building the Aswan Dam, Egyptian leader Gamal Abdel Nasser nationalizes the Suez Canal, sparking international condemnation.
August 27 » The nuclear power station at Calder Hall in the United Kingdom was connected to the national power grid becoming the world's first commercial nuclear power station to generate electricity on an industrial scale.
September 16 » TCN-9 Sydney is the first Australian television station to commence regular broadcasts.
October 15 » FORTRAN, the first modern computer language, is first shared with the coding community.
November 3 » Suez Crisis: The Khan Yunis killings by the Israel Defense Forces in Egyptian-controlled Gaza result in the deaths of 275 Palestinians.
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