The temperature on January 23, 1890 was about 8.3 °C. There was 7 mm of rain. The air pressure was 8 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 73 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 94%. Source: KNMI
March 20 » Prime Minister of the German Empire Otto von Bismarck is dismissed by Emperor Wilhelm II.
April 14 » The Pan-American Union is founded by the First International Conference of American States in Washington, D.C.
August 6 » At Auburn Prison in New York, murderer William Kemmler becomes the first person to be executed by electric chair.
September 25 » The United States Congress establishes Sequoia National Park.
November 4 » City and South London Railway: London's first deep-level tube railway opens between King William Street and Stockwell.
December 15 » Hunkpapa Lakota leader Sitting Bull is killed on Standing Rock Indian Reservation, leading to the Wounded Knee Massacre.
Day of death February 17, 1949
The temperature on February 17, 1949 was between -0.1 °C and 11.9 °C and averaged 5.5 °C. There was 8.0 hours of sunshine (80%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
From August 7, 1948 till March 15, 1951 the Netherlands had a cabinet Drees - Van Schaik with the prime ministers Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) and Mr. J.R.H. van Schaik (KVP).
January 31 » These Are My Children, the first television daytime soap opera, is broadcast by the NBC station in Chicago.
March 30 » Cold War: A riot breaks out in Austurvöllur square in Reykjavík, when Iceland joins NATO.
April 7 » The Rodgers and Hammerstein musical South Pacific opened on Broadway; it would run for 1,925 performances and win ten Tony Awards.
June 5 » Thailand elects Orapin Chaiyakan, the first female member of Thailand's Parliament.
November 15 » Nathuram Godse and Narayan Apte are executed for assassinating Mahatma Gandhi.
December 10 » Chinese Civil War: The People's Liberation Army begins its siege of Chengdu, the last Kuomintang-held city in mainland China, forcing President of the Republic of China Chiang Kai-shek and his government to retreat to Taiwan.
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