The temperature on September 25, 1884 was about 14.2 °C. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 87%. 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.
January 4 » The Fabian Society is founded in London, United Kingdom.
February 19 » More than sixty tornadoes strike the Southern United States, one of the largest tornado outbreaks in U.S. history.
March 13 » The Siege of Khartoum begins. It lasts until January 26, 1885.
April 20 » Pope Leo XIII publishes the encyclical Humanum genus.
August 5 » The cornerstone for the Statue of Liberty is laid on Bedloe's Island (now Liberty Island) in New York Harbor.
October 22 » The International Meridian Conference designates the Royal Observatory, Greenwich as the world's prime meridian.
Day of marriage January 9, 1908
The temperature on January 9, 1908 was between -3.1 °C and 1.7 °C and averaged -0.7 °C. There was 2.5 mm of rain. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from August 17, 1905 to February 11, 1908 the cabinet De Meester, with Mr. Th. de Meester (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
In The Netherlands , there was from February 12, 1908 to August 29, 1913 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. Th. Heemskerk (AR) as prime minister.
January 15 » The Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority becomes the first Greek-letter organization founded and established by African American college women.
January 30 » Indian pacifist and leader Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi is released from prison by Jan C. Smuts after being tried and sentenced to two months in jail earlier in the month.
April 8 » Harvard University votes to establish the Harvard Business School.
June 18 » The University of the Philippines is established.
September 17 » The Wright Flyer flown by Orville Wright, with Lieutenant Thomas Selfridge as passenger, crashes, killing Selfridge, who becomes the first airplane fatality.
November 3 » William Howard Taft is elected the 27th President of the United States.
Day of death November 3, 1957
The temperature on November 3, 1957 was between 6.9 °C and 12.0 °C and averaged 9.9 °C. There was 1.5 mm of rain during 1.6 hours. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 6 Bft (strong wind) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
January 1 » Lèse majesté in Thailand was strengthened to include "insult" and changed to a crime against national security, after Thai criminal code of 1956 went into effect.
January 5 » In a speech given to the United States Congress, United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower announces the establishment of what will later be called the Eisenhower Doctrine.
March 4 » The S&P 500 stock market index is introduced, replacing the S&P 90.
March 6 » Ghana becomes the first Sub-Saharan country to gain independence from the British.
May 3 » Walter O'Malley, the owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers, agrees to move the team from Brooklyn to Los Angeles.
November 8 » Pan Am Flight 7 disappears between San Francisco and Honolulu. Wreckage and bodies are discovered a week later.
Day of burial November 6, 1957
The temperature on November 6, 1957 was between 6.4 °C and 11.9 °C and averaged 8.5 °C. There was 5.1 hours of sunshine (55%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
January 23 » American inventor Walter Frederick Morrison sells the rights to his flying disc to the Wham-O toy company, which later renames it the "Frisbee".
March 31 » Elections to the Territorial Assembly of the French colony Upper Volta are held. After the elections PDU and MDV form a government.
June 9 » First ascent of Broad Peak by Fritz Wintersteller, Marcus Schmuck, Kurt Diemberger, and Hermann Buhl.
July 25 » The Tunisian King Muhammad VIII al-Amin is replaced by President Habib Bourguiba.
August 5 » American Bandstand, a show dedicated to the teenage "baby-boomers" by playing the songs and showing popular dances of the time, debuts on the ABC television network.
September 25 » Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, is integrated by the use of United States Army troops.
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