The temperature on May 13, 1886 was about 17.3 °C. There was 8 mm of rain. The air pressure was 12 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the southwest. The airpressure was 74 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 85%. 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 18 » Modern field hockey is born with the formation of The Hockey Association in England.
May 1 » Rallies are held throughout the United States demanding the eight-hour work day, culminating in the Haymarket affair in Chicago, in commemoration of which May 1 is celebrated as International Workers' Day in many countries.
May 5 » The Bay View massacre: A militia fires into a crowd of protesters in Milwaukee, killing seven.
July 4 » The Canadian Pacific Railway's first scheduled train from Montreal arrives in Port Moody on the Pacific coast, after six days of travel.
October 28 » President Cleveland dedicates the Statue of Liberty.
November 27 » German judge Emil Hartwich sustains fatal injuries in a duel, which would become the background for Theodor Fontane's Effi Briest.
Day of marriage May 21, 1909
The temperature on May 21, 1909 was between 8.3 °C and 25.6 °C and averaged 17.8 °C. There was 13.7 hours of sunshine (86%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. Source: KNMI
January 23 » RMSRepublic, a passenger ship of the White Star Line, becomes the first ship to use the CQD distress signal after colliding with another ship, the SS Florida, off the Massachusetts coastline, an event that kills six people. The Republic sinks the next day.
February 15 » The Flores Theater fire in Acapulco, Mexico kills 250.
February 20 » Publication of the Futurist Manifesto in the French journal Le Figaro.
August 30 » Burgess Shale fossils are discovered by Charles Doolittle Walcott.
December 10 » Selma Lagerlöf becomes the first female writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.
December 14 » New South Wales Premier Charles Wade signs the Seat of Government Surrender Act 1909, formally completing the transfer of State land to the Commonwealth to create the Australian Capital Territory.
Day of death July 23, 1971
The temperature on July 23, 1971 was between 12.3 °C and 24.7 °C and averaged 18.5 °C. There was 6.0 mm of rain during 2.1 hours. There was 4.2 hours of sunshine (26%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east. Source: KNMI
February 20 » The United States Emergency Broadcast System is accidentally activated in an erroneous national alert.
February 24 » The All India Forward Bloc holds an emergency central committee meeting after its chairman, Hemantha Kumar Bose, is killed three days earlier. P.K. Mookiah Thevar is appointed as the new chairman.
April 19 » Charles Manson is sentenced to death (later commuted to life imprisonment) for conspiracy in the Tate–LaBianca murders.
May 27 » The Dahlerau train disaster, the worst railway accident in West Germany, kills 46 people and injures 25 near Wuppertal.
August 22 » J. Edgar Hoover and John Mitchell announce the arrest of 20 of the Camden 28.
November 28 » Wasfi al-Tal, Prime Minister of Jordan, is assassinated by the Black September unit of the Palestine Liberation Organization.
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