The temperature on May 18, 1884 was about 16.9 °C. The air pressure was 5 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the north-northwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 71%. 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.
February 1 » The first volume (A to Ant) of the Oxford English Dictionary is published.
March 13 » The Siege of Khartoum begins. It lasts until January 26, 1885.
July 3 » Dow Jones & Company publishes its first stock average.
October 6 » The Naval War College of the United States is founded in Rhode Island.
December 6 » The Washington Monument in Washington, D.C., is completed.
December 10 » Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is published.
Day of death November 28, 1960
The temperature on November 28, 1960 was between 0.4 °C and 9.2 °C and averaged 4.7 °C. There was 0.8 mm of rain during 0.4 hours. There was 5.6 hours of sunshine (68%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
January 6 » National Airlines Flight 2511 is destroyed in mid-air by a bomb, while en route from New York City to Miami.
January 30 » The African National Party is founded in Chad, through the merger of traditionalist parties.
February 29 » The 5.7Mw Agadir earthquake shakes coastal Morocco with a maximum perceived intensity of X (Extreme), destroying Agadir, and leaving 12,000 dead and another 12,000 injured.
May 3 » The Off-Broadway musical comedy The Fantasticks opens in New York City's Greenwich Village, eventually becoming the longest-running musical of all time.
June 25 » Cold War: Two cryptographers working for the United States National Security Agency left for vacation to Mexico, and from there defected to the Soviet Union.
September 14 » The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) is founded.
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