The temperature on February 19, 1883 was about 3.7 °C. There was 3 mm of rain. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the south east. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 97%. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from August 20, 1879 to April 23, 1883 the cabinet Van Lijnden van Sandenburg, with Mr. C.Th. baron Van Lijnden van Sandenburg (conservatief-AR) as prime minister.
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 19 » The first electric lighting system employing overhead wires, built by Thomas Edison, begins service at Roselle, New Jersey.
May 24 » The Brooklyn Bridge in New York City is opened to traffic after 14 years of construction.
May 27 » Alexander III is crowned Tsar of Russia.
May 30 » In New York City, a stampede on the recently opened Brooklyn Bridge killed twelve people.
July 10 » War of the Pacific: Chileans led by Alejandro Gorostiaga defeat Andrés Avelino Cáceres's Peruvuan army at the Battle of Huamachuco, hastening the end of the war.
December 21 » The Royal Canadian Dragoons and The Royal Canadian Regiment, the first Permanent Force cavalry and infantry regiments of the Canadian Army, are formed.
Day of marriage April 16, 1904
The temperature on April 16, 1904 was between 8.9 °C and 19.7 °C and averaged 12.8 °C. There was 5.1 hours of sunshine (37%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. Source: KNMI
January 7 » The distress signal "CQD" is established only to be replaced two years later by "SOS".
February 28 » S.L. Benfica is founded in Portugal.
August 23 » The automobile tire chain is patented.
November 16 » English engineer John Ambrose Fleming receives a patent for the thermionic valve (vacuum tube).
December 3 » The Jovian moon Himalia is discovered by Charles Dillon Perrine at California's Lick Observatory.
December 7 » Comparative fuel trials begin between warships HMSSpiteful and HMSPeterel: Spiteful was the first warship powered solely by fuel oil, and the trials led to the obsolescence of coal in ships of the Royal Navy.
Day of death July 6, 1952
The temperature on July 6, 1952 was between 18.1 °C and 30.9 °C and averaged 24.6 °C. There was 12.6 hours of sunshine (76%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east. Source: KNMI
February 6 » Elizabeth II becomes Queen of the United Kingdom and her other Realms and Territories and Head of the Commonwealth upon the death of her father, George VI. At the exact moment of succession, she was in a tree house at the Treetops Hotel in Kenya.
June 13 » Catalina affair: A Swedish Douglas DC-3 is shot down by a Soviet MiG-15 fighter.
August 11 » Hussein bin Talal is proclaimed King of Jordan.
September 15 » The United Nations cedes Eritrea to Ethiopia.
October 14 » Korean War: The Battle of Triangle Hill is the biggest and bloodiest battle of 1952.
December 20 » A United States Air Force C-124 crashes and burns in Moses Lake, Washington killing 87.
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