The temperature on June 9, 1894 was about 13.1 °C. There was 0.9 mm of rain. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 93%. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from August 21, 1891 to May 9, 1894 the cabinet Van Tienhoven, with Mr. G. van Tienhoven (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
In The Netherlands , there was from May 9, 1894 to July 27, 1897 the cabinet Roëll, with Jonkheer mr. J. Roëll (oud-liberaal) as prime minister.
May 1 » Coxey's Army, the first significant American protest march, arrives in Washington, D.C.
May 11 » Four thousand Pullman Palace Car Company workers go on a wildcat strike.
July 25 » The First Sino-Japanese War begins when the Japanese fire upon a Chinese warship.
August 22 » Mahatma Gandhi forms the Natal Indian Congress (NIC) in order to fight discrimination against Indian traders in Natal.
September 15 » First Sino-Japanese War: Japan defeats Qing dynasty China in the Battle of Pyongyang.
November 1 » Buffalo Bill, 15 of his Indians, and Annie Oakley were filmed by Thomas Edison in his Black Maria Studio in West Orange, New Jersey.
Day of death November 9, 1958
The temperature on November 9, 1958 was between 4.1 °C and 10.8 °C and averaged 7.0 °C. There was 0.8 mm of rain during 1.2 hours. There was 3.6 hours of sunshine (39%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. Source: KNMI
February 5 » A hydrogen bomb known as the Tybee Bomb is lost by the US Air Force off the coast of Savannah, Georgia, never to be recovered.
June 1 » Charles de Gaulle comes out of retirement to lead France by decree for six months.
June 16 » Imre Nagy, Pál Maléter and other leaders of the 1956 Hungarian Uprising are executed.
August 18 » Brojen Das from Bangladesh swims across the English Channel in a competition, as the first Bengali and the first Asian to do so. He came first among 39 competitors.
October 28 » John XXIII is elected Pope.
December 1 » The Our Lady of the Angels School fire in Chicago kills 92 children and three nuns.
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