The temperature on May 27, 1886 was about 18.7 °C. There was 2 mm of rain. The air pressure was 34 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 69%. 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.
January 29 » Karl Benz patents the first successful gasoline-driven automobile.
March 27 » Geronimo, Apache warrior, surrenders to the U.S. Army, ending the main phase of the Apache Wars.
March 29 » John Pemberton brews the first batch of Coca-Cola in a backyard in Atlanta.
April 8 » William Ewart Gladstone introduces the first Irish Home Rule Bill into the British House of Commons.
July 3 » Karl Benz officially unveils the Benz Patent-Motorwagen, the first purpose-built automobile.
November 14 » Friedrich Soennecken first developed the hole puncher, a type of office tool capable of punching small holes in paper.
Day of marriage December 22, 1904
The temperature on December 22, 1904 was between -4.5 °C and 2.7 °C and averaged -1.5 °C. There was 4.0 hours of sunshine (52%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
January 8 » The Blackstone Library is dedicated, marking the beginning of the Chicago Public Library system.
February 8 » Aceh War: Dutch Colonial Army's Marechaussee regiment led by General G.C.E. van Daalen launch military campaign to capture Gayo Highland, Alas Highland, and Batak Highland in Dutch East Indies' Northern Sumatra region, which ends with genocide to Acehnese and Bataks people.
May 9 » The steam locomotive City of Truro becomes the first steam engine in Europe to exceed 100mph (160km/h).
June 28 » The SSNorge runs aground on Hasselwood Rock in the North Atlantic 430 kilometres (270mi) northwest of Ireland. More than 635 people die during the sinking.
October 4 » The IFK Göteborg football club is founded in Sweden.
October 27 » The first underground New York City Subway line opens, later designated as the IRT Broadway–Seventh Avenue Line.
Day of death October 29, 1971
The temperature on October 29, 1971 was between 3.7 °C and 12.3 °C and averaged 6.9 °C. There was 9.0 hours of sunshine (91%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east. Source: KNMI
August 10 » The Society for American Baseball Research is founded in Cooperstown, New York.
September 8 » In Washington, D.C., the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts is inaugurated, with the opening feature being the premiere of Leonard Bernstein's Mass.
September 20 » Having weakened after making landfall in Nicaragua the previous day, Hurricane Irene regains enough strength to be renamed Hurricane Olivia, making it the first known hurricane to cross from the Atlantic Ocean into the Pacific.
October 21 » A gas explosion kills 22 people at a shopping centre near Glasgow, Scotland.
December 7 » Pakistan President Yahya Khan announces the formation of a coalition government with Nurul Amin as Prime Minister and Zulfikar Ali Bhutto as Deputy Prime Minister.
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