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 29 » Karl Benz patents the first successful gasoline-driven automobile.
May 29 » The pharmacist John Pemberton places his first advertisement for Coca-Cola, which appeared in The Atlanta Journal.
June 26 » Henri Moissan isolated elemental Fluorine for the first time.
July 4 » The Canadian Pacific Railway's first scheduled train from Montreal arrives in Port Moody on the Pacific coast, after six days of travel.
September 4 » American Indian Wars: After almost 30 years of fighting, Apache leader Geronimo, with his remaining warriors, surrenders to General Nelson Miles in Arizona.
November 27 » German judge Emil Hartwich sustains fatal injuries in a duel, which would become the background for Theodor Fontane's Effi Briest.
Day of marriage May 16, 1912
The temperature on May 16, 1912 was between 5.4 °C and 14.1 °C and averaged 10.6 °C. There was 2.8 mm of rain. There was 4.1 hours of sunshine (26%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
January 5 » The 6th All-Russian Conference of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Prague Party Conference) opens. In the course of the conference, Vladimir Lenin and his supporters break from the rest of the party to form the Bolshevik movement.
January 17 » British polar explorer Captain Robert Falcon Scott reaches the South Pole, one month after Roald Amundsen.
May 4 » Italy occupies the Greek island of Rhodes.
May 5 » Pravda, the "voice" of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, begins publication in Saint Petersburg.
June 8 » Carl Laemmle incorporates Universal Pictures.
November 27 » Spain declares a protectorate over the north shore of Morocco.
Day of death July 2, 1962
The temperature on July 2, 1962 was between 10.8 °C and 15.1 °C and averaged 13.6 °C. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
February 20 » Mercury program: While aboard Friendship 7, John Glenn becomes the first American to orbit the earth, making three orbits in four hours, 55 minutes.
June 14 » The European Space Research Organisation is established in Paris – later becoming the European Space Agency.
July 2 » The first Walmart store, then known as Wal-Mart, opens for business in Rogers, Arkansas.
August 30 » Japan conducts a test of the NAMC YS-11, its first aircraft since World War II and its only successful commercial aircraft from before or after the war.
September 27 » The Yemen Arab Republic is established.
November 21 » The Chinese People's Liberation Army declares a unilateral ceasefire in the Sino-Indian War.
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