The temperature on January 15, 1888 was about -3.9 °C. The air pressure was 41 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the east-northeast. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 95%. 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.
In The Netherlands , there was from April 21, 1888 to August 21, 1891 the cabinet Mackay, with Mr. A. baron Mackay (AR) as prime minister.
March 11 » The Great Blizzard of 1888 begins along the eastern seaboard of the United States, shutting down commerce and killing more than 400.
August 5 » Bertha Benz drives from Mannheim to Pforzheim and back in the first long distance automobile trip, commemorated as the Bertha Benz Memorial Route since 2008.
September 8 » In London, the body of Jack the Ripper's second murder victim, Annie Chapman, is found.
September 22 » The first issue of National Geographic Magazine is published.
September 30 » Jack the Ripper kills his third and fourth victims, Elizabeth Stride and Catherine Eddowes.
October 30 » The Rudd Concession is granted by Matabeleland to agents of Cecil Rhodes.
Day of marriage May 15, 1909
The temperature on May 15, 1909 was between -0.4 °C and 10.9 °C and averaged 6.0 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. There was 2.7 hours of sunshine (17%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north. Source: KNMI
February 23 » The AEA Silver Dart makes the first powered flight in Canada and the British Empire.
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 13 » The military of the Ottoman Empire reverses the Ottoman countercoup of 1909 to force the overthrow of Sultan Abdul Hamid II.
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.
October 26 » An Jung-geun assassinates Japan's Resident-General of Korea.
November 18 » Two United States warships are sent to Nicaragua after 500 revolutionaries (including two Americans) are executed by order of José Santos Zelaya.
Day of death January 15, 1966
The temperature on January 15, 1966 was between -6.0 °C and -2.2 °C and averaged -4.2 °C. There was 1.3 mm of rain during 1.3 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest. Source: KNMI
February 4 » All Nippon Airways Flight 60 plunges into Tokyo Bay, killing 133.
March 5 » BOAC Flight 911, a Boeing 707 aircraft, breaks apart in mid-air due to clear-air turbulence and crashes into Mount Fuji, Japan, killing all 124 people on board.
April 30 » The Church of Satan is formed in The Black House, San Francisco.
July 6 » Malawi becomes a republic, with Hastings Banda as its first President.
September 6 » Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd, the architect of apartheid, is stabbed to death in Cape Town, South Africa during a parliamentary meeting.
December 26 » The first Kwanzaa is celebrated by Maulana Karenga, the chair of Black Studies at California State University, Long Beach.
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