The temperature on January 7, 1890 was about 11.4 °C. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the south. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 81%. Source: KNMI
January 22 » The United Mine Workers of America is founded in Columbus, Ohio.
January 25 » Nellie Bly completes her round-the-world journey in 72 days.
March 4 » The longest bridge in Great Britain, the Forth Bridge in Scotland, measuring 1,710 feet (520m) long, is opened by the Duke of Rothesay, later King Edward VII.
April 7 » Completion of the first Lake Biwa Canal.
September 12 » Salisbury, Rhodesia, is founded.
December 30 » Following the Wounded Knee Massacre, the United States Army and Lakota warriors face off in the Drexel Mission Fight.
Day of death July 24, 1962
The temperature on July 24, 1962 was between 6.2 °C and 22.1 °C and averaged 15.7 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 11.0 hours of sunshine (69%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east. Source: KNMI
February 5 » French President Charles de Gaulle calls for Algeria to be granted independence.
October 12 » The Columbus Day Storm strikes the U.S. Pacific Northwest with record wind velocities; 46 dead and at least U.S. $230 million in damages.
October 27 » By refusing to agree to the firing of a nuclear torpedo at a US warship, Vasily Arkhipov averts nuclear war.
October 27 » Major Rudolf Anderson of the United States Air Force becomes the only direct human casualty of the Cuban Missile Crisis when his U-2 reconnaissance airplane is shot down over Cuba by a Soviet-supplied surface-to-air missile.
December 8 » Workers at four New York City newspapers (this later increases to nine) go on strike for 114 days.
December 13 » NASA launches Relay 1, the first active repeater communications satellite in orbit.
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