The temperature on April 23, 1886 was about 12.6 °C. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 56%. 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.
March 29 » John Pemberton brews the first batch of Coca-Cola in a backyard in Atlanta.
May 1 » Rallies are held throughout the United States demanding the eight-hour work day, culminating in the Haymarket affair in Chicago, in commemoration of which May 1 is celebrated as International Workers' Day in many countries.
May 8 » Pharmacist John Pemberton first sells a carbonated beverage named "Coca-Cola" as a patent medicine.
June 10 » Mount Tarawera in New Zealand erupts, killing 153 people and burying the famous Pink and White Terraces. Eruptions continue for three months creating a large, 17km long fissure across the mountain peak.
June 26 » Henri Moissan isolated elemental Fluorine for the first time.
October 28 » President Cleveland dedicates the Statue of Liberty.
Day of death November 19, 1949
The temperature on November 19, 1949 was between 1.8 °C and 8.1 °C and averaged 5.9 °C. There was 0.9 mm of rain during 1.7 hours. There was 2.8 hours of sunshine (32%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east. 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).
August 29 » Soviet atomic bomb project: The Soviet Union tests its first atomic bomb, known as First Lightning or Joe 1, at Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan.
October 16 » The Greek Communist Party announces a "temporary cease-fire", thus ending the Greek Civil War.
November 2 » The Dutch–Indonesian Round Table Conference ends with the Netherlands agreeing to transfer sovereignty of the Dutch East Indies to the United States of Indonesia.
November 15 » Nathuram Godse and Narayan Apte are executed for assassinating Mahatma Gandhi.
December 2 » Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Persons and of the Exploitation of the Prostitution of Others is adopted.
December 13 » The Knesset votes to move the capital of Israel to Jerusalem.
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