The temperature on January 19, 1885 was about -0.9 °C. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the east-southeast. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 85%. 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 17 » A British force defeats a large Dervish army at the Battle of Abu Klea in the Sudan.
March 3 » The American Telephone & Telegraph Company is incorporated in New York.
March 31 » The United Kingdom establishes the Bechuanaland Protectorate.
May 1 » The original Chicago Board of Trade Building opens for business.
November 7 » The completion of Canada's first transcontinental railway is symbolized by the Last Spike ceremony at Craigellachie, British Columbia.
November 28 » Bulgarian victory in the Serbo-Bulgarian War preserves the Unification of Bulgaria.
Day of marriage April 22, 1909
The temperature on April 22, 1909 was between 6.1 °C and 19.2 °C and averaged 11.3 °C. There was 10.3 hours of sunshine (72%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. Source: KNMI
January 23 » RMSRepublic, a passenger ship of the White Star Line, becomes the first ship to use the CQD distress signal after colliding with another ship, the SS Florida, off the Massachusetts coastline, an event that kills six people. The Republic sinks the next day.
February 15 » The Flores Theater fire in Acapulco, Mexico kills 250.
March 4 » U.S. President William Taft used what became known as a Saxbe fix, a mechanism to avoid the restriction of the U.S. Constitution's Ineligibility Clause, to appoint Philander C. Knox as U.S. Secretary of State.
April 11 » The city of Tel Aviv is founded.
May 13 » The first Giro d'Italia starts from Milan. Italian cyclist Luigi Ganna will be the winner.
July 25 » Louis Blériot makes the first flight across the English Channel in a heavier-than-air machine from Calais to Dover, England, United Kingdom in 37 minutes.
Day of death March 29, 1966
The temperature on March 29, 1966 was between 0.3 °C and 6.7 °C and averaged 2.6 °C. There was 7.3 mm of rain during 3.0 hours. There was 6.0 hours of sunshine (47%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. Source: KNMI
January 13 » Robert C. Weaver becomes the first African American Cabinet member when he is appointed United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.
May 30 » Former Congolese Prime Minister, Évariste Kimba, and several other politicians are publicly executed in Kinshasa on the orders of President Joseph Mobutu.
June 2 » Surveyor program: Surveyor 1 lands in Oceanus Procellarum on the Moon, becoming the first U.S. spacecraft to soft-land on another world.
June 30 » The National Organization for Women, the United States' largest feminist organization, is founded.
November 28 » Michel Micombero overthrows the monarchy of Burundi and makes himself the first president.
December 18 » Saturn's moon Epimetheus is discovered by astronomer Richard Walker.
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