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 4 » The Fabian Society is founded in London, United Kingdom.
February 19 » More than sixty tornadoes strike the Southern United States, one of the largest tornado outbreaks in U.S. history.
May 1 » The Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions demands the eight-hour work day in the United States.
June 16 » The first purpose-built roller coaster, LaMarcus Adna Thompson's "Switchback Railway", opens in New York's Coney Island amusement park.
October 13 » The International Meridian Conference establishes the meridian of the Greenwich Observatory as the prime meridian.
October 14 » George Eastman receives a U.S. Government patent on his new paper-strip photographic film.
Day of marriage October 26, 1910
The temperature on October 26, 1910 was between 3.2 °C and 14.3 °C and averaged 7.6 °C. There was 6.6 hours of sunshine (66%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
January 13 » The first public radio broadcast takes place; a live performance of the operas Cavalleria rusticana and Pagliacci are sent out over the airwaves from the Metropolitan Opera House in New York.
January 15 » Construction ends on the Buffalo Bill Dam in Wyoming, United States, which was the highest dam in the world at the time, at 325ft (99m).
May 4 » The Royal Canadian Navy is created.
May 11 » An act of the U.S. Congress establishes Glacier National Park in Montana.
July 15 » In his book Clinical Psychiatry, Emil Kraepelin gives a name to Alzheimer's disease, naming it after his colleague Alois Alzheimer.
October 1 » A large bomb destroys the Los Angeles Times building, killing 21.
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