The temperature on July 24, 1884 was about 19.5 °C. There was 9 mm of rain. The air pressure was 4 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the southwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 73%. 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.
May 1 » Moses Fleetwood Walker becomes the first black person to play in a professional baseball game in the United States.
May 1 » The Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions demands the eight-hour work day in the United States.
August 5 » The cornerstone for the Statue of Liberty is laid on Bedloe's Island (now Liberty Island) in New York Harbor.
October 22 » The International Meridian Conference designates the Royal Observatory, Greenwich as the world's prime meridian.
Day of death October 24, 1961
The temperature on October 24, 1961 was between 6.6 °C and 16.7 °C and averaged 12.0 °C. There was 21.0 mm of rain during 7.5 hours. There was 0.4 hours of sunshine (4%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
January 11 » Throgs Neck Bridge over the East River, linking New York City's boroughs of The Bronx and Queens, opens to road traffic.
January 17 » U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower delivers a televised farewell address to the nation three days before leaving office, in which he warns against the accumulation of power by the "military–industrial complex" as well as the dangers of massive spending, especially deficit spending.
February 4 » The Angolan War of Independence and the greater Portuguese Colonial War begin.
April 23 » Algiers putsch by French generals.
May 4 » American civil rights movement: The "Freedom Riders" begin a bus trip through the South.
May 16 » Park Chung-hee leads a coup d'état to overthrow the Second Republic of South Korea.
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