The temperature on December 27, 1894 was about 4.5 °C. There was 2 mm of rain. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 93%. 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.
In The Netherlands , there was from May 9, 1894 to July 27, 1897 the cabinet Roëll, with Jonkheer mr. J. Roëll (oud-liberaal) as prime minister.
January 7 » Thomas Edison makes a kinetoscopic film of someone sneezing. On the same day, his employee, William Kennedy Dickson, receives a patent for motion picture film.
February 12 » Anarchist Émile Henry hurls a bomb into the Cafe Terminus in Paris, killing one person and wounding 20.
March 22 » The first playoff game for the Stanley Cup starts.
August 25 » Kitasato Shibasaburō discovers the infectious agent of the bubonic plague and publishes his findings in The Lancet.
September 1 » Over 400 people die in the Great Hinckley Fire, a forest fire in Hinckley, Minnesota.
September 17 » Battle of the Yalu River, the largest naval engagement of the First Sino-Japanese War.
Day of death August 20, 1990
The temperature on August 20, 1990 was between 14.3 °C and 18.2 °C and averaged 16.3 °C. There was 11.3 mm of rain during 3.4 hours. There was 5.7 hours of sunshine (40%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, November 7, 1989 to Monday, August 22, 1994 the cabinet Lubbers III, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
January 18 » Washington, D.C. Mayor Marion Barry is arrested for drug possession in an FBI sting.
February 14 » Ninety-two people are killed when Indian Airlines Flight 605 crashes in Bangalore, India.
March 11 » Lithuania declares itself independent from the Soviet Union.
April 9 » An IRA bombing in County Down, Northern Ireland, kills three members of the UDR.
August 13 » A mainland Chinese fishing boat Min Ping Yu No. 5202 is hit by a Taiwan's naval vessel and sinks in a repatriation operation of mainland Chinese illegal immigrants, resulting in 21 deaths. This is the second tragedy less than a month after Min Ping Yu No. 5540 incident.
December 22 » Lech Wałęsa is elected President of Poland.
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