The temperature on August 11, 1890 was about 20.2 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain. The air pressure was 6 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 82%. Source: KNMI
July 27 » Vincent van Gogh shoots himself and dies two days later.
September 24 » The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints officially renounces polygamy.
October 11 » In Washington, D.C., the Daughters of the American Revolution is founded.
November 23 » King William III of the Netherlands dies without a male heir and a special law is passed to allow his daughter Princess Wilhelmina to succeed him.
November 29 » The Meiji Constitution goes into effect in Japan, and the first Diet convenes.
December 30 » Following the Wounded Knee Massacre, the United States Army and Lakota warriors face off in the Drexel Mission Fight.
Day of death April 18, 1954
The temperature on April 18, 1954 was between -2.3 °C and 8.2 °C and averaged 4.3 °C. There was 0.6 mm of rain during 1.5 hours. There was 2.6 hours of sunshine (18%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. Source: KNMI
March 1 » Nuclear weapons testing: The Castle Bravo, a 15-megaton hydrogen bomb, is detonated on Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean, resulting in the worst radioactive contamination ever caused by the United States.
March 19 » Joey Giardello knocks out Willie Tory in round seven at Madison Square Garden in the first televised prize boxing fight shown in colour.
September 17 » The novel Lord of the Flies by William Golding is first published.
October 27 » Benjamin O. Davis, Jr. becomes the first African-American general in the United States Air Force.
November 12 » Ellis Island ceased operations.
December 23 » First successful kidney transplant is performed by J. Hartwell Harrison and Joseph Murray.
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