The temperature on February 4, 1892 was about 2.8 °C. There was 3 mm of rain. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 89%. 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.
February 29 » St. Petersburg, Florida is incorporated.
June 6 » The Chicago "L" elevated rail system begins operation.
July 26 » Dadabhai Naoroji is elected as the first Indian Member of Parliament in Britain.
September 8 » The Pledge of Allegiance is first recited.
October 26 » Ida B. Wells publishes Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases.
November 12 » Pudge Heffelfinger becomes the first professional American football player on record, participating in his first paid game for the Allegheny Athletic Association.
Day of death April 17, 1898
The temperature on April 17, 1898 was about 7.2 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 86%. Source: KNMI
February 23 » Émile Zola is imprisoned in France after writing J'Accuse…!, a letter accusing the French government of antisemitism and wrongfully imprisoning Captain Alfred Dreyfus.
April 25 » Spanish–American War: The United States declares war on Spain.
June 22 » Spanish–American War: In a chaotic operation, 6,000 men of the U.S. Fifth Army Corps begins landing at Daiquirí, Cuba, about 16 miles (26km) east of Santiago de Cuba. Lt. Gen. Arsenio Linares y Pombo of the Spanish Army outnumbers them two-to-one, but does not oppose the landings.
August 24 » Count Muravyov, Foreign Minister of Russia presents a rescript that convoked the First Hague Peace Conference.
October 1 » The Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration is founded under the name k.u.k. Exportakademie.
October 14 » The steam ship SSMohegan sinks near the Lizard peninsula, Cornwall, killing 106.
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