The temperature on April 16, 1886 was about 5.1 °C. There was 0.7 mm of rain. The air pressure was 4 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the north. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 87%. 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.
March 1 » The Anglo-Chinese School, Singapore is founded by Bishop William Oldham.
May 8 » Pharmacist John Pemberton first sells a carbonated beverage named "Coca-Cola" as a patent medicine.
May 29 » The pharmacist John Pemberton places his first advertisement for Coca-Cola, which appeared in The Atlanta Journal.
June 26 » Henri Moissan isolated elemental Fluorine for the first time.
June 30 » The first transcontinental train trip across Canada departs from Montreal, Quebec. It arrives in Port Moody, British Columbia on July 4.
July 3 » The New-York Tribune becomes the first newspaper to use a linotype machine, eliminating typesetting by hand.
Day of death August 20, 1968
The temperature on August 20, 1968 was between 11.7 °C and 19.3 °C and averaged 15.4 °C. There was 3.3 mm of rain during 3.4 hours. There was 1.8 hours of sunshine (12%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
January 31 » Vietnam War: Viet Cong guerrillas attack the United States embassy in Saigon, and other attacks, in the early morning hours, later grouped together as the Tet Offensive.
April 4 » A.E.K. Athens B.C. becomes the first Greek team to win the European Basketball Cup.
April 8 » BOAC Flight 712 catches fire shortly after takeoff. As a result of her actions in the accident, Barbara Jane Harrison is awarded a posthumous George Cross, the only GC awarded to a woman in peacetime.
April 23 » Vietnam War: Student protesters at Columbia University in New York City take over administration buildings and shut down the university.
May 25 » The Gateway Arch in St. Louis, Missouri, is dedicated.
July 26 » Vietnam War: South Vietnamese opposition leader Trương Đình Dzu is sentenced to five years hard labor for advocating the formation of a coalition government as a way to move toward an end to the war.
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