The temperature on September 11, 1885 was about 10.4 °C. There was 6 mm of rain. The air pressure was 12 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the south-southeast. The airpressure was 74 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 94%. 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 17 » A British force defeats a large Dervish army at the Battle of Abu Klea in the Sudan.
March 19 » Louis Riel declares a provisional government in Saskatchewan, beginning the North-West Rebellion.
March 31 » The United Kingdom establishes the Bechuanaland Protectorate.
July 1 » The Congo Free State is established by King Leopold II of Belgium.
July 20 » The Football Association legalizes professionalism in association football under pressure from the British Football Association.
September 29 » The first practical public electric tramway in the world is opened in Blackpool, England.
Day of death February 25, 1970
The temperature on February 25, 1970 was between -0.4 °C and 5.6 °C and averaged 2.1 °C. There was 4.7 mm of rain during 2.4 hours. There was 1.0 hours of sunshine (9%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. Source: KNMI
March 2 » Rhodesia declares itself a republic, breaking its last links with the British crown.
March 5 » The Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons goes into effect after ratification by 43 nations.
March 10 » Vietnam War: Captain Ernest Medina is charged by the U.S. military with My Lai war crimes.
April 15 » During the Cambodian Civil War, massacre of the Vietnamese minority results in 800 bodies flowing down the Mekong river into South Vietnam.
September 6 » Two passenger jets bound from Europe to New York are simultaneously hijacked by Palestinian terrorist members of the PFLP and taken to Dawson's Field, Jordan.
October 9 » The Khmer Republic is proclaimed in Cambodia.
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