The temperature on January 28, 1890 was about 1.5 °C. There was 15 mm of rain. The air pressure was 3 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the northeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 96%. Source: KNMI
January 25 » Nellie Bly completes her round-the-world journey in 72 days.
March 20 » Prime Minister of the German Empire Otto von Bismarck is dismissed by Emperor Wilhelm II.
July 27 » Vincent van Gogh shoots himself and dies two days later.
September 25 » The United States Congress establishes Sequoia National Park.
November 23 » King William III of the Netherlands dies without a male heir and a special law is passed to allow his daughter Princess Wilhelmina to succeed him.
December 15 » Hunkpapa Lakota leader Sitting Bull is killed on Standing Rock Indian Reservation, leading to the Wounded Knee Massacre.
Day of death December 13, 1962
The temperature on December 13, 1962 was between -1.2 °C and 4.8 °C and averaged 1.4 °C. There was 1.1 mm of rain during 0.5 hours. There was 3.4 hours of sunshine (44%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest. Source: KNMI
March 4 » A Caledonian Airways Douglas DC-7 crashes shortly after takeoff from Cameroon, killing 111 - the worst crash of a DC-7.
July 11 » Project Apollo: At a press conference, NASA announces lunar orbit rendezvous as the means to land astronauts on the Moon, and return them to Earth.
August 5 » American actress Marilyn Monroe is found dead at her home from a drug overdose.
August 31 » Trinidad and Tobago becomes independent.
October 9 » A visible light-emitting diode (LED) is first demonstrated in Syracuse, New York.
November 7 » Eleanor Roosevelt, wife and First Lady of the 32nd president of the United States Franklin D. Roosevelt, dies in her bed at her home in New York City.
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