The temperature on August 20, 1889 was about 15.0 °C. There was 2 mm of rain. The air pressure was 106 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 74 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 94%. Source: KNMI
May 2 » Menelik II, Emperor of Ethiopia, signs the Treaty of Wuchale, giving Italy control over Eritrea.
May 6 » The Eiffel Tower is officially opened to the public at the Universal Exposition in Paris.
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.
August 13 » William Gray of Hartford, Connecticut is granted United States Patent Number 408,709 for "Coin-controlled apparatus for telephones."
November 8 » Montana is admitted as the 41st U.S. state.
November 15 » Brazil is declared a republic by Marshal Deodoro da Fonseca as Emperor Pedro II is deposed in a military coup.
Day of marriage August 6, 1914
The temperature on August 6, 1914 was between 13.0 °C and 19.7 °C and averaged 16.4 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 9.6 hours of sunshine (63%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from August 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
August 5 » World War I: The guns of Point Nepean fort at Port Phillip Heads in Victoria (Australia) fire across the bows of the Norddeutscher Lloyd steamer SSPfalz which is attempting to leave the Port of Melbourne in ignorance of the declaration of war and she is detained; this is said to be the first Allied shot of the War.
August 26 » World War I: During the retreat from Mons, the British II Corps commanded by General Sir Horace Smith-Dorrien fought a vigorous and successful defensive action at Le Cateau.
September 1 » St. Petersburg, Russia, changes its name to Petrograd.
September 18 » The Irish Home Rule Act becomes law, but is delayed until after World War I.
November 26 » HMS Bulwark was destroyed by a large internal explosion with the loss of 741 men near Sheerness.
December 15 » A gas explosion at Mitsubishi Hōjō coal mine, in Kyushu, Japan, kills 687.
Day of death September 9, 1961
The temperature on September 9, 1961 was between 9.2 °C and 17.0 °C and averaged 13.4 °C. There was 1.9 hours of sunshine (14%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. Source: KNMI
March 29 » The Twenty-third Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, allowing residents of Washington, D.C., to vote in presidential elections.
June 4 » Cold War: In the Vienna summit, the Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev sparks the Berlin Crisis by threatening to sign a separate peace treaty with East Germany and ending American, British and French access to East Berlin.
July 4 » On its maiden voyage, the Soviet nuclear-powered submarine K-19 suffers a complete loss of coolant to its reactor. The crew are able to effect repairs, but 22 of them die of radiation poisoning over the following two years.
September 18 » U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld dies in an air crash while attempting to negotiate peace in the Katanga region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
September 20 » Greek general Konstantinos Dovas becomes Prime Minister of Greece.
October 29 » Syria exits from the United Arab Republic.
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