The temperature on January 8, 1888 was about 6.3 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. The air pressure was 16 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 100%. 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.
In The Netherlands , there was from April 21, 1888 to August 21, 1891 the cabinet Mackay, with Mr. A. baron Mackay (AR) as prime minister.
March 15 » Start of the Anglo-Tibetan War of 1888.
March 23 » In England, The Football League, the world's oldest professional association football league, meets for the first time.
April 6 » Thomas Green Clemson dies, bequeathing his estate to the State of South Carolina to establish Clemson Agricultural College.
May 16 » Nikola Tesla delivers a lecture describing the equipment which will allow efficient generation and use of alternating currents to transmit electric power over long distances.
June 29 » George Edward Gouraud records Handel's Israel in Egypt onto a phonograph cylinder, thought for many years to be the oldest known recording of music.
August 5 » Bertha Benz drives from Mannheim to Pforzheim and back in the first long distance automobile trip, commemorated as the Bertha Benz Memorial Route since 2008.
Day of marriage September 7, 1912
The temperature on September 7, 1912 was between 9.1 °C and 14.8 °C and averaged 11.5 °C. There was 9.1 mm of rain. There was 3.6 hours of sunshine (27%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. Source: KNMI
January 11 » Immigrant textile workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts, go on strike when wages are reduced in response to a mandated shortening of the work week.
February 25 » Marie-Adélaïde, the eldest of six daughters of Guillaume IV, becomes the first reigning Grand Duchess of Luxembourg.
March 30 » Sultan Abd al-Hafid signs the Treaty of Fez, making Morocco a French protectorate.
June 8 » Carl Laemmle incorporates Universal Pictures.
November 27 » Spain declares a protectorate over the north shore of Morocco.
December 19 » William Van Schaick, captain of the steamship General Slocum which caught fire and killed over one thousand people, is pardoned by U.S. President William Howard Taft after 3⁄2 years in Sing Sing prison.
Day of death May 2, 1949
The temperature on May 2, 1949 was between 2.7 °C and 15.9 °C and averaged 10.3 °C. There was 13.1 hours of sunshine (88%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
From August 7, 1948 till March 15, 1951 the Netherlands had a cabinet Drees - Van Schaik with the prime ministers Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) and Mr. J.R.H. van Schaik (KVP).
January 2 » Luis Muñoz Marín is inaugurated as the first democratically elected Governor of Puerto Rico.
February 17 » Chaim Weizmann begins his term as the first President of Israel.
March 10 » Mildred Gillars ("Axis Sally") is convicted of treason.
April 1 » Chinese Civil War: The Chinese Communist Party holds unsuccessful peace talks with the Nationalist Party in Beijing, after three years of fighting.
September 29 » The Communist Party of China writes the Common Programme for the future People's Republic of China.
November 15 » Nathuram Godse and Narayan Apte are executed for assassinating Mahatma Gandhi.
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