The temperature on December 23, 1889 was about 7.4 °C. There was 7 mm of rain. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 98%. Source: KNMI
February 22 » President Grover Cleveland signs a bill admitting North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana and Washington as U.S. states.
May 2 » Menelik II, Emperor of Ethiopia, signs the Treaty of Wuchale, giving Italy control over Eritrea.
August 4 » The Great Fire of Spokane, Washington destroys some 32 blocks of the city, prompting a mass rebuilding project.
September 23 » Nintendo Koppai (Later Nintendo Company, Limited) is founded by Fusajiro Yamauchi to produce and market the playing card game Hanafuda.
November 8 » Montana is admitted as the 41st U.S. state.
November 15 » Brazil is declared a republic by Marshal Deodoro da Fonseca as Emperor Pedro II is deposed in a military coup.
Day of marriage June 2, 1915
The temperature on June 2, 1915 was between 5.1 °C and 20.8 °C and averaged 14.3 °C. There was 13.5 hours of sunshine (82%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
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.
January 26 » The Rocky Mountain National Park is established by an act of the U.S. Congress.
February 22 » World War I: The Imperial German Navy institutes unrestricted submarine warfare.
April 18 » French pilot Roland Garros is shot down and glides to a landing on the German side of the lines during World War I.
June 9 » William Jennings Bryan resigns as Woodrow Wilson's Secretary of State over a disagreement regarding the United States' handling of the sinking of the RMSLusitania.
July 7 » Colombo Town Guard officer Henry Pedris is executed in British Ceylon for allegedly inciting persecution of Muslims.
December 20 » World War I: The last Australian troops are evacuated from Gallipoli.
Day of death September 21, 1961
The temperature on September 21, 1961 was between 11.0 °C and 21.1 °C and averaged 16.2 °C. There was 4.5 hours of sunshine (36%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. Source: KNMI
May 16 » Park Chung-hee leads a coup d'état to overthrow the Second Republic of South Korea.
August 10 » Vietnam War: The U.S. Army begins Operation Ranch Hand, spraying an estimated 20million US gallons (76,000m) of defoliants and herbicides over rural areas of South Vietnam in an attempt to deprive the Viet Cong of food and vegetation cover.
August 25 » President Jânio Quadros of Brazil resigns after just seven months in power, initiating a political crisis that culminates in a military coup in 1964.
October 17 » Directed by their chief Maurice Papon, Paris police massacre scores of Algerian protesters.
October 20 » The Soviet Union performs the first armed test of a submarine-launched ballistic missile, launching an R-13 from a Golf-class submarine.
October 30 » The Soviet Union detonates the Tsar Bomba, the most powerful explosive device ever detonated.
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