The temperature on September 2, 1890 was about 17.0 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the west-northwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 58%. Source: KNMI
March 20 » Prime Minister of the German Empire Otto von Bismarck is dismissed by Emperor Wilhelm II.
July 10 » Wyoming is admitted as the 44th U.S. state.
July 26 » In Buenos Aires, Argentina the Revolución del Parque takes place, forcing President Miguel Ángel Juárez Celman's resignation.
October 1 » Yosemite National Park is established by the U.S. Congress.
October 11 » In Washington, D.C., the Daughters of the American Revolution is founded.
November 4 » City and South London Railway: London's first deep-level tube railway opens between King William Street and Stockwell.
Day of marriage May 15, 1913
The temperature on May 15, 1913 was between 8.3 °C and 21.5 °C and averaged 14.5 °C. There was 8.5 hours of sunshine (54%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from February 12, 1908 to August 29, 1913 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. Th. Heemskerk (AR) as prime minister.
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.
January 3 » An Atlantic coast storm sets the lowest confirmed barometric pressure reading for a non-tropical system in the continental United States.
July 4 » President Woodrow Wilson addresses American Civil War veterans at the Great Reunion of 1913.
August 10 » Second Balkan War: Delegates from Bulgaria, Romania, Serbia, Montenegro, and Greece sign the Treaty of Bucharest, ending the war.
September 23 » Roland Garros of France becomes the first to fly in an airplane across the Mediterranean (from St. Raphael in France to Bizerte, Tunisia).
October 10 » U.S. President Wilson triggers the explosion of the Gamboa Dike, completing major construction on the Panama Canal.
December 1 » Ford Motor Company introduces the first moving assembly line.
Day of death May 1, 1966
The temperature on May 1, 1966 was between 8.5 °C and 23.7 °C and averaged 16.8 °C. There was 13.4 hours of sunshine (90%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. Source: KNMI
June 8 » The National Football League and American Football League announced a merger effective in 1970.
July 18 » Human spaceflight: Gemini 10 is launched from Cape Kennedy on a 70-hour mission that includes docking with an orbiting Agena target vehicle.
July 24 » Michael Pelkey makes the first BASE jump from El Capitan along with Brian Schubert. Both came out with broken bones. BASE jumping has now been banned from El Cap.
October 4 » Basutoland becomes independent from the United Kingdom and is renamed Lesotho.
November 8 » Former Massachusetts Attorney General Edward Brooke becomes the first African American elected to the United States Senate since Reconstruction.
December 24 » A Canadair CL-44 chartered by the United States military crashes into a small village in South Vietnam, killing 129.
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