The temperature on September 19, 1886 was about 20.3 °C. The air pressure was 13 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the east. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 42%. 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.
January 18 » Modern field hockey is born with the formation of The Hockey Association in England.
February 23 » Charles Martin Hall produced the first samples of aluminium from the electrolysis of aluminium oxide, after several years of intensive work. He was assisted in this project by his older sister, Julia Brainerd Hall.
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.
July 3 » The New-York Tribune becomes the first newspaper to use a linotype machine, eliminating typesetting by hand.
November 27 » German judge Emil Hartwich sustains fatal injuries in a duel, which would become the background for Theodor Fontane's Effi Briest.
Day of marriage January 13, 1912
The temperature on January 13, 1912 was between 1.5 °C and 4.5 °C and averaged 3.1 °C. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. Source: KNMI
April 16 » Harriet Quimby becomes the first woman to fly an airplane across the English Channel.
May 8 » Paramount Pictures is founded.
May 18 » The first Indian film, Shree Pundalik by Dadasaheb Torne, is released in Mumbai.
September 28 » Corporal Frank S. Scott of the United States Army becomes the first enlisted man to die in an airplane crash.
October 17 » Bulgaria, Greece and Serbia declare war on the Ottoman Empire, joining Montenegro in the First Balkan War.
October 26 » First Balkan War: The Ottomans lose the cities of Thessaloniki and Skopje.
Day of death April 4, 1967
The temperature on April 4, 1967 was between 6.4 °C and 11.7 °C and averaged 8.4 °C. There was 0.9 mm of rain during 2.5 hours. There was 3.0 hours of sunshine (23%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. Source: KNMI
February 4 » Lunar Orbiter program: Lunar Orbiter 3 lifts off from Cape Canaveral's Launch Complex 13 on its mission to identify possible landing sites for the Surveyor and Apollo spacecraft.
April 9 » The first Boeing 737 (a 100 series) makes its maiden flight.
July 29 » Vietnam War: Off the coast of North Vietnam the USSForrestal catches on fire in the worst U.S. naval disaster since World War II, killing 134.
August 13 » Two young women became the first fatal victims of grizzly bear attacks in the 57-year history of Montana's Glacier National Park in separate incidents.
August 30 » Thurgood Marshall is confirmed as the first African American Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
October 8 » Guerrilla leader Che Guevara and his men are captured in Bolivia.
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