The temperature on September 2, 1894 was about 15.9 °C. There was 0.7 mm of rain. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 66%. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from August 21, 1891 to May 9, 1894 the cabinet Van Tienhoven, with Mr. G. van Tienhoven (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
In The Netherlands , there was from May 9, 1894 to July 27, 1897 the cabinet Roëll, with Jonkheer mr. J. Roëll (oud-liberaal) as prime minister.
February 7 » The Cripple Creek miner's strike, led by the Western Federation of Miners, begins in Cripple Creek, Colorado, United States.
February 12 » Anarchist Émile Henry hurls a bomb into the Cafe Terminus in Paris, killing one person and wounding 20.
March 22 » The first playoff game for the Stanley Cup starts.
March 25 » Coxey's Army, the first significant American protest march, departs Massillon, Ohio for Washington, D.C.
August 25 » Kitasato Shibasaburō discovers the infectious agent of the bubonic plague and publishes his findings in The Lancet.
September 1 » Over 400 people die in the Great Hinckley Fire, a forest fire in Hinckley, Minnesota.
Day of marriage May 2, 1923
The temperature on May 2, 1923 was between 5.8 °C and 18.6 °C and averaged 12.0 °C. There was 8.4 hours of sunshine (56%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from September 19, 1922 to August 4, 1925 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck II, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
January 1 » Britain's Railways are grouped into the Big Four: LNER, GWR, SR, and LMS.
January 9 » Juan de la Cierva makes the first autogyro flight.
February 15 » Greece becomes the last European country to adopt the Gregorian calendar.
June 18 » Checker Taxi puts its first taxi on the streets.
October 15 » The German Rentenmark is introduced in Germany to counter hyperinflation in the Weimar Republic.
October 29 » Turkey becomes a republic following the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire.
Day of death November 15, 1967
The temperature on November 15, 1967 was between 5.2 °C and 9.8 °C and averaged 7.0 °C. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
May 27 » Australians vote in favor of a constitutional referendum granting the Australian government the power to make laws to benefit Indigenous Australians and to count them in the national census.
June 13 » U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson nominates Solicitor-General Thurgood Marshall to become the first black justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.
July 29 » During the fourth day of celebrating its 400th anniversary, the city of Caracas, Venezuela is shaken by an earthquake, leaving approximately 500 dead.
November 7 » Carl B. Stokes is elected as Mayor of Cleveland, Ohio, becoming the first African American mayor of a major American city.
November 9 » Apollo program: NASA launches the unmanned Apollo 4 test spacecraft atop the first Saturn V rocket from Cape Kennedy, Florida.
December 13 » Constantine II of Greece attempts an unsuccessful counter-coup against the Regime of the Colonels.
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