The temperature on February 16, 1889 was about 2.4 °C. The air pressure was 12 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 96%. Source: KNMI
February 9 » US president Grover Cleveland signs a bill elevating the United States Department of Agriculture to a Cabinet-level agency.
March 23 » The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community is established by Mirza Ghulam Ahmad in Qadian, British India.
April 1 » The University of Northern Colorado was established, as the Colorado State Normal School.
June 6 » The Great Seattle Fire destroys all of downtown Seattle.
June 26 » Bangui is founded by Albert Dolisie and Alfred Uzac in what was then the upper reaches of the French Congo.
November 14 » Pioneering female journalist Nellie Bly (aka Elizabeth Cochrane) begins a successful attempt to travel around the world in less than 80 days. She completes the trip in 72 days.
Day of marriage October 28, 1911
The temperature on October 28, 1911 was between 2.2 °C and 9.7 °C and averaged 6.7 °C. There was 1.5 mm of rain. There was 3.9 hours of sunshine (39%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north. Source: KNMI
January 14 » Roald Amundsen's South Pole expedition makes landfall on the eastern edge of the Ross Ice Shelf.
January 30 » The destroyer USSTerry makes the first airplane rescue at sea saving the life of Douglas McCurdy ten miles from Havana, Cuba.
April 8 » Dutch physicist Heike Kamerlingh Onnes discovers superconductivity.
June 16 » IBM founded as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company in Endicott, New York.
June 28 » The Nakhla meteorite, the first one to suggest signs of aqueous processes on Mars, falls to Earth, landing in Egypt.
November 5 » After declaring war on the Ottoman Empire on September 29, 1911, Italy annexes Tripoli and Cyrenaica.
Day of death February 1, 1971
The temperature on February 1, 1971 was between -2.0 °C and 5.4 °C and averaged 1.8 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 1.0 hours of sunshine (11%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. Source: KNMI
January 22 » The Singapore Declaration, one of the two most important documents to the uncodified constitution of the Commonwealth of Nations, is issued.
March 18 » Peru: a landslide crashes into Yanawayin Lake, killing 200 people at the mining camp of Chungar.
April 19 » Charles Manson is sentenced to death (later commuted to life imprisonment) for conspiracy in the Tate–LaBianca murders.
December 4 » The Indian Navy attacks the Pakistan Navy and Karachi.
December 4 » The PNS Ghazi, a submarine belonging to the Pakistan Navy, sinks during the course of the Indo-Pakistani Naval War of 1971.
December 6 » Pakistan severs diplomatic relations with India, initiating the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971.
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