The temperature on May 3, 1889 was about 11.9 °C. The air pressure was 6 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the northeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 69%. Source: KNMI
January 15 » The Coca-Cola Company, then known as the Pemberton Medicine Company, is incorporated in Atlanta.
March 31 » The Eiffel Tower is officially opened.
April 1 » The University of Northern Colorado was established, as the Colorado State Normal School.
April 22 » At noon, thousands rush to claim land in the Land Rush of 1889. Within hours the cities of Oklahoma City and Guthrie are formed with populations of at least 10,000.
May 6 » The Eiffel Tower is officially opened to the public at the Universal Exposition in Paris.
May 31 » Johnstown Flood: Over 2,200 people die after a dam fails and sends a 60-foot (18-meter) wall of water over the town of Johnstown, Pennsylvania.
Day of marriage June 11, 1910
The temperature on June 11, 1910 was between 13.7 °C and 21.3 °C and averaged 16.4 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain. There was 3.4 hours of sunshine (20%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. Source: KNMI
January 15 » Construction ends on the Buffalo Bill Dam in Wyoming, United States, which was the highest dam in the world at the time, at 325ft (99m).
February 8 » The Boy Scouts of America is incorporated by William D. Boyce.
June 17 » Aurel Vlaicu pilots an A. Vlaicu nr. 1 on its first flight.
July 15 » In his book Clinical Psychiatry, Emil Kraepelin gives a name to Alzheimer's disease, naming it after his colleague Alois Alzheimer.
October 5 » In a revolution in Portugal the monarchy is overthrown and a republic is declared.
December 21 » An underground explosion at the Hulton Bank Colliery No. 3 Pit in Over Hulton, Westhoughton, England, kills 344 miners.
Day of death June 15, 1955
The temperature on June 15, 1955 was between 8.4 °C and 17.4 °C and averaged 14.0 °C. There was 2.0 mm of rain during 2.2 hours. There was 2.2 hours of sunshine (13%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
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