The temperature on August 7, 1886 was about 21.9 °C. The air pressure was 17 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 76%. 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 29 » Karl Benz patents the first successful gasoline-driven automobile.
March 29 » John Pemberton brews the first batch of Coca-Cola in a backyard in Atlanta.
April 8 » William Ewart Gladstone introduces the first Irish Home Rule Bill into the British House of Commons.
May 29 » The pharmacist John Pemberton places his first advertisement for Coca-Cola, which appeared in The Atlanta Journal.
July 3 » Karl Benz officially unveils the Benz Patent-Motorwagen, the first purpose-built automobile.
October 28 » President Cleveland dedicates the Statue of Liberty.
Day of marriage May 4, 1912
The temperature on May 4, 1912 was between 5.1 °C and 12.1 °C and averaged 8.7 °C. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north. Source: KNMI
April 18 » The Cunard liner RMSCarpathia brings 705 survivors from the RMSTitanic to New York City.
September 4 » Albanian rebels succeed in their revolt when the Ottoman Empire agrees to fulfill their demands
October 26 » First Balkan War: The Ottomans lose the cities of Thessaloniki and Skopje.
November 19 » First Balkan War: The Serbian Army captures Bitola, ending the five-century-long Ottoman rule of Macedonia.
December 6 » The Nefertiti Bust is discovered.
December 19 » William Van Schaick, captain of the steamship General Slocum which caught fire and killed over one thousand people, is pardoned by U.S. President William Howard Taft after 3⁄2 years in Sing Sing prison.
Day of death December 15, 1963
The temperature on December 15, 1963 was between -12.0 °C and -0.7 °C and averaged -6.4 °C. There was 7.0 hours of sunshine (90%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north. Source: KNMI
February 8 » Travel, financial and commercial transactions by United States citizens to Cuba are made illegal by the John F. Kennedy administration.
February 12 » Construction begins on the Gateway Arch in St. Louis, Missouri.
May 11 » Racist bombings in Birmingham, Alabama, disrupt nonviolence in the Birmingham campaign and precipitate a crisis involving federal troops.
June 11 » John F. Kennedy addresses Americans from the Oval Office proposing the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which would revolutionize American society by guaranteeing equal access to public facilities, ending segregation in education, and guaranteeing federal protection for voting rights.
September 15 » Baptist Church bombing: Four children killed in the bombing of an African-American church in Birmingham, Alabama, United States.
November 29 » "I Want to Hold Your Hand", recorded on October 17, 1963, is released by the Beatles in the United Kingdom.
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