The temperature on December 9, 1884 was about 3.4 °C. There was 12 mm of rain. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 98%. 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.
January 4 » The Fabian Society is founded in London, United Kingdom.
February 1 » The first volume (A to Ant) of the Oxford English Dictionary is published.
May 1 » The Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions demands the eight-hour work day in the United States.
June 16 » The first purpose-built roller coaster, LaMarcus Adna Thompson's "Switchback Railway", opens in New York's Coney Island amusement park.
August 5 » The cornerstone for the Statue of Liberty is laid on Bedloe's Island (now Liberty Island) in New York Harbor.
October 14 » George Eastman receives a U.S. Government patent on his new paper-strip photographic film.
Day of death April 13, 1971
The temperature on April 13, 1971 was between 4.9 °C and 9.8 °C and averaged 6.8 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. Source: KNMI
January 1 » Cigarette advertisements are banned on American television.
February 11 » Cold War: the Seabed Arms Control Treaty opened for signature outlawing nuclear weapons on the ocean floor in international waters.
March 7 » Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, political leader of then East Pakistan (present day-Bangladesh), delivers his historic 7th March speech in the Racecourse Field (Now Suhrawardy Udyan) in Dhaka.
September 11 » The Egyptian Constitution becomes official.
October 25 » The People's Republic of China replaces the Republic of China at the United Nations.
November 24 » During a severe thunderstorm over Washington state, a hijacker calling himself Dan Cooper (aka D. B. Cooper) parachutes from a Northwest Orient Airlines plane with $200,000 in ransom money. He has never been found.
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