The temperature on April 30, 1890 was about 9.9 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the east-northeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 71%. Source: KNMI
January 22 » The United Mine Workers of America is founded in Columbus, Ohio.
July 1 » Canada and Bermuda are linked by telegraph cable.
September 25 » The United States Congress establishes Sequoia National Park.
November 29 » The Meiji Constitution goes into effect in Japan, and the first Diet convenes.
December 29 » Wounded Knee Massacre on Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, 300 Lakota are killed by the United States 7th Cavalry Regiment.
December 30 » Following the Wounded Knee Massacre, the United States Army and Lakota warriors face off in the Drexel Mission Fight.
Day of marriage May 24, 1913
The temperature on May 24, 1913 was between 9.5 °C and 17.4 °C and averaged 13.7 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. There was 0.2 hours of sunshine (1%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west. 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.
February 5 » Greek military aviators, Michael Moutoussis and Aristeidis Moraitinis perform the first naval air mission in history, with a Farman MF.7 hydroplane.
March 4 » First Balkan War: The Greek army engages the Turks at Bizani, resulting in victory two days later.
April 8 » The 17th Amendment to the United States Constitution, requiring direct election of Senators, becomes law.
July 31 » The Balkan States sign an armistice in Bucharest.
October 31 » The Indianapolis Streetcar Strike and subsequent riot begins.
December 17 » A spur of the Shaker Heights streetcar line opens, the first line of the eventual Cleveland RTA Rapid Transit system.
Day of death December 24, 1961
The temperature on December 24, 1961 was between -8.6 °C and -3.6 °C and averaged -6.6 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 6.6 hours of sunshine (85%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. Source: KNMI
January 3 » A protest by agricultural workers in Baixa de Cassanje, Portuguese Angola, turns into a revolt, opening the Angolan War of Independence, the first of the Portuguese Colonial Wars.
January 3 » Cold War: The United States severs diplomatic relations with Cuba over the latter's nationalization of American assets.
January 26 » John F. Kennedy appoints Janet G. Travell to be the first woman Physician to the President.
May 28 » Peter Benenson's article The Forgotten Prisoners is published in several internationally read newspapers. This will later be thought of as the founding of the human rights organization Amnesty International.
May 30 » The long-time Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo is assassinated in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
October 17 » Directed by their chief Maurice Papon, Paris police massacre scores of Algerian protesters.
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