The temperature on January 25, 1892 was about 0.1 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 100%. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from August 21, 1891 to May 9, 1894 the cabinet Van Tienhoven, with Mr. G. van Tienhoven (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
April 15 » The General Electric Company is formed.
July 6 » Three thousand eight hundred striking steelworkers engage in a day-long battle with Pinkerton agents during the Homestead Strike, leaving ten dead and dozens wounded.
August 4 » The father and stepmother of Lizzie Borden are found murdered in their Fall River, Massachusetts home. She was tried and acquitted for the crimes a year later.
August 9 » Thomas Edison receives a patent for a two-way telegraph.
October 21 » Opening ceremonies for the World's Columbian Exposition are held in Chicago, though because construction was behind schedule, the exposition did not open until May 1, 1893.
December 18 » Premiere performance of The Nutcracker by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
Day of marriage April 14, 1918
The temperature on April 14, 1918 was between 4.9 °C and 6.6 °C and averaged 5.8 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from August 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
In The Netherlands , there was from September 9, 1918 to September 18, 1922 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck I, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
March 25 » The Belarusian People's Republic is established.
March 31 » Daylight saving time goes into effect in the United States for the first time.
September 15 » World War I: Allied troops break through the Bulgarian defenses on the Macedonian front.
October 30 » World War I: Lands of the Crown of Saint Stephen, a state union of Kingdom of Hungary and Triune Kingdom of Croatia, Slavonia and Dalmatia is abolished with decisions of Croatian and Hungarian parliaments
November 14 » Czechoslovakia becomes a republic.
November 26 » The Montenegran Podgorica Assembly votes for a "union of the people", declaring assimilation into the Kingdom of Serbia.
Day of death May 30, 1926
The temperature on May 30, 1926 was between 10.8 °C and 15.6 °C and averaged 14.0 °C. There was 14.1 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
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