The temperature on August 8, 1889 was about 20.3 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain. The air pressure was 4 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the west-northwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 63%. Source: KNMI
February 11 » Meiji Constitution of Japan is adopted.
May 2 » Menelik II, Emperor of Ethiopia, signs the Treaty of Wuchale, giving Italy control over Eritrea.
May 11 » An attack upon a U.S. Army paymaster and escort results in the theft of over $28,000 and the award of two Medals of Honor.
June 29 » Hyde Park and several other Illinois townships vote to be annexed by Chicago, forming the largest United States city in area and second largest in population at the time.
September 23 » Nintendo Koppai (Later Nintendo Company, Limited) is founded by Fusajiro Yamauchi to produce and market the playing card game Hanafuda.
November 2 » North Dakota and South Dakota are admitted as the 39th and 40th U.S. states.
Day of marriage March 11, 1915
The temperature on March 11, 1915 was between 1.5 °C and 7.2 °C and averaged 4.4 °C. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. 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 24 » World War I: British Grand Fleet battle cruisers under Vice-Admiral Sir David Beatty engage Rear-Admiral Franz von Hipper's battle cruisers in the Battle of Dogger Bank.
April 22 » The use of poison gas in World War I escalates when chlorine gas is released as a chemical weapon in the Second Battle of Ypres.
April 24 » The arrest of 250 Armenian intellectuals and community leaders in Istanbul marks the beginning of the Armenian Genocide.
May 6 » Babe Ruth, then a pitcher for the Boston Red Sox, hits his first major league home run.
June 29 » The North Saskatchewan River flood of 1915 is the worst flood in Edmonton history.
August 29 » US Navy salvage divers raise F-4, the first U.S. submarine sunk in an accident.
Day of death May 28, 1987
The temperature on May 28, 1987 was between 8.1 °C and 13.3 °C and averaged 10.2 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain during 1.2 hours. There was 2.1 hours of sunshine (13%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, November 4, 1986 to Tuesday, November 7, 1989 the cabinet Lubbers II, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
April 21 » The Tamil Tigers are blamed for a car bomb that detonates in the Sri Lankan capital city of Colombo, killing 106 people.
June 28 » For the first time in military history, a civilian population is targeted for chemical attack when Iraqi warplanes bombed the Iranian town of Sardasht.
July 1 » The American radio station WFAN in New York City is launched as the world's first all-sports radio station.
August 7 » Cold War: Lynne Cox becomes the first person to swim from the United States to the Soviet Union, crossing the Bering Strait from Little Diomede Island in Alaska to Big Diomede in the Soviet Union.
September 13 » Goiânia accident: A radioactive object is stolen from an abandoned hospital in Goiânia, Brazil, contaminating many people in the following weeks and causing some to die from radiation poisoning.
October 11 » The AIDS Memorial Quilt is first displayed during the Second National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights.
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