The temperature on February 5, 1889 was about 0.8 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. The air pressure was 34 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 96%. Source: KNMI
June 26 » Bangui is founded by Albert Dolisie and Alfred Uzac in what was then the upper reaches of the French Congo.
July 11 » Tijuana, Mexico, is founded.
August 4 » The Great Fire of Spokane, Washington destroys some 32 blocks of the city, prompting a mass rebuilding project.
August 13 » William Gray of Hartford, Connecticut is granted United States Patent Number 408,709 for "Coin-controlled apparatus for telephones."
September 23 » Nintendo Koppai (Later Nintendo Company, Limited) is founded by Fusajiro Yamauchi to produce and market the playing card game Hanafuda.
November 14 » Pioneering female journalist Nellie Bly (aka Elizabeth Cochrane) begins a successful attempt to travel around the world in less than 80 days. She completes the trip in 72 days.
Day of marriage August 14, 1909
The temperature on August 14, 1909 was between 7.6 °C and 18.7 °C and averaged 15.0 °C. There was 1.9 hours of sunshine (13%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
January 9 » Ernest Shackleton, leading the Nimrod Expedition to the South Pole, plants the British flag 97 nautical miles (180km; 112mi) from the South Pole, the farthest anyone had ever reached at that time.
February 2 » The Paris Film Congress opens. An attempt by European producers to form an equivalent to the MPCC cartel in the United States.
February 12 » New Zealand's worst maritime disaster of the 20th century happens when the SSPenguin, an inter-island ferry, sinks and explodes at the entrance to Wellington Harbour.
February 26 » Kinemacolor, the first successful color motion picture process, is first shown to the general public at the Palace Theatre in London.
March 10 » By signing the Anglo-Siamese Treaty of 1909, Thailand relinquishes its sovereignty over the Malay states of Kedah, Kelantan, Perlis and Terengganu, which become British protectorates.
September 20 » The South Africa Act 1909 creates the Union of South Africa from the British Colonies from four smaller colonies.
Day of death April 27, 1958
The temperature on April 27, 1958 was between 3.1 °C and 8.5 °C and averaged 6.2 °C. There was 8.9 mm of rain during 4.6 hours. There was 3.1 hours of sunshine (21%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
January 4 » Sputnik 1, the first artificial Earth satellite, launched by the Soviet Union in 1957, falls to Earth from orbit.
March 31 » In the Canadian federal election, the Progressive Conservatives, led by John Diefenbaker, win the largest percentage of seats in Canadian history, with 208 seats of 265.
August 18 » Vladimir Nabokov's controversial novel Lolita is published in the United States.
October 28 » John XXIII is elected Pope.
November 12 » A team of rock climbers led by Warren Harding completes the first ascent of The Nose on El Capitan in Yosemite Valley.
December 14 » The 3rd Soviet Antarctic Expedition becomes the first to reach the southern pole of inaccessibility.
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