The temperature on March 20, 1890 was about 3.7 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 12 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the south-southeast. The airpressure was 74 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 90%. Source: KNMI
April 14 » The Pan-American Union is founded by the First International Conference of American States in Washington, D.C.
July 1 » Canada and Bermuda are linked by telegraph cable.
August 7 » Anna Månsdotter became the last woman to be executed in Sweden for the 1889 Yngsjö murder.
September 12 » Salisbury, Rhodesia, is founded.
November 4 » City and South London Railway: London's first deep-level tube railway opens between King William Street and Stockwell.
December 22 » Cornwallis Valley Railway begins operation between Kentville and Kingsport, Nova Scotia.
Day of marriage May 24, 1919
The temperature on May 24, 1919 was between 9.2 °C and 22.6 °C and averaged 16.0 °C. There was 9.6 hours of sunshine (60%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from September 9, 1918 to September 18, 1922 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck I, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
February 21 » German socialist Kurt Eisner is assassinated. His death results in the establishment of the Bavarian Soviet Republic and parliament and government fleeing Munich, Germany.
March 1 » March 1st Movement begins in Korea under Japanese rule.
June 2 » Anarchists simultaneously set off bombs in eight separate U.S. cities.
July 13 » The British airship R34 lands in Norfolk, England, completing the first airship return journey across the Atlantic in 182 hours of flight.
July 21 » The dirigible Wingfoot Air Express crashes into the Illinois Trust and Savings Building in Chicago, killing 12 people.
September 11 » United States Marine Corps invades Honduras.
Day of death April 8, 1981
The temperature on April 8, 1981 was between 5.9 °C and 15.8 °C and averaged 10.3 °C. There was 3.1 hours of sunshine (23%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, December 19, 1977 to Friday, September 11, 1981 the cabinet Van Agt I, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA/KVP) as prime minister.
In The Netherlands , there was from Friday, September 11, 1981 to Saturday, May 29, 1982 the cabinet Van Agt II, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA) as prime minister.
January 19 » Iran hostage crisis: United States and Iranian officials sign an agreement to release 52 American hostages after 14 months of captivity.
March 1 » Provisional Irish Republican Army member Bobby Sands begins his hunger strike in HM Prison Maze.
September 21 » Sandra Day O'Connor is unanimously approved by the U.S. Senate as the first female Supreme Court justice.
October 27 » Cold War: The Soviet submarine S-363 runs aground on the east coast of Sweden.
December 11 » El Mozote massacre: Armed forces in El Salvador kill an estimated 900 civilians in an anti-guerrilla campaign during the Salvadoran Civil War.
December 31 » A coup d'état in Ghana removes President Hilla Limann's PNP government and replaces it with the Provisional National Defence Council led by Flight lieutenant Jerry Rawlings.
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