The temperature on April 5, 1889 was about 5.3 °C. There was 2 mm of rain. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 97%. Source: KNMI
February 11 » Meiji Constitution of Japan is adopted.
May 2 » Menelik II, Emperor of Ethiopia, signs the Treaty of Wuchale, giving Italy control over Eritrea.
June 3 » The first long-distance electric power transmission line in the United States is completed, running 14 miles (23km) between a generator at Willamette Falls and downtown Portland, Oregon.
November 14 » Pioneering female journalist Nellie Bly (aka Elizabeth Cochrane) begins a successful attempt to travel around the world in less than 80 days. She completes the trip in 72 days.
November 15 » Brazil is declared a republic by Marshal Deodoro da Fonseca as Emperor Pedro II is deposed in a military coup.
November 23 » The first jukebox goes into operation at the Palais Royale Saloon in San Francisco.
Day of marriage November 12, 1910
The temperature on November 12, 1910 was between 0.4 °C and 9.4 °C and averaged 4.7 °C. There was 0.6 mm of rain. There was 5.5 hours of sunshine (61%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
January 1 » Captain David Beatty is promoted to Rear admiral, and becomes the youngest admiral in the Royal Navy (except for Royal family members) since Horatio Nelson.
March 1 » The deadliest avalanche in United States history buries a Great Northern Railway train in northeastern King County, Washington, killing 96 people.
March 3 » Rockefeller Foundation: John D. Rockefeller Jr. announces his retirement from managing his businesses so that he can devote all his time to philanthropy.
May 11 » An act of the U.S. Congress establishes Glacier National Park in Montana.
June 17 » Aurel Vlaicu pilots an A. Vlaicu nr. 1 on its first flight.
October 5 » In a revolution in Portugal the monarchy is overthrown and a republic is declared.
Day of death February 14, 1961
The temperature on February 14, 1961 was between 1.9 °C and 14.9 °C and averaged 8.3 °C. There was 8.0 hours of sunshine (81%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
May 14 » Civil rights movement: A white mob twice attacks a Freedom Riders bus near Anniston, Alabama, before fire-bombing the bus and attacking the civil rights protesters who flee the burning vehicle.
August 1 » U.S. Defense Secretary Robert McNamara orders the creation of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), the nation's first centralized military espionage organization.
August 15 » Border guard Conrad Schumann flees from East Germany while on duty guarding the construction of the Berlin Wall.
October 29 » Syria exits from the United Arab Republic.
November 11 » Thirteen Italian Air Force servicemen, deployed to the Congo as a part of the UN peacekeeping force, are massacred by a mob in Kindu.
December 15 » Adolf Eichmann is sentenced to death after being found guilty by an Israeli court of 15 criminal charges, including charges of crimes against humanity, crimes against the Jewish people, and membership of an outlawed organization.
Day of burial February 17, 1961
The temperature on February 17, 1961 was between 2.6 °C and 16.4 °C and averaged 7.8 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. There was 7.7 hours of sunshine (77%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east. Source: KNMI
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