The temperature on September 3, 1889 was about 18.3 °C. There was 4 mm of rain. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 98%. Source: KNMI
January 8 » Herman Hollerith is issued US patent #395,791 for the 'Art of Applying Statistics' — his punched card calculator.
February 22 » President Grover Cleveland signs a bill admitting North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana and Washington as U.S. states.
May 2 » Menelik II, Emperor of Ethiopia, signs the Treaty of Wuchale, giving Italy control over Eritrea.
May 6 » The Eiffel Tower is officially opened to the public at the Universal Exposition in Paris.
September 23 » Nintendo Koppai (Later Nintendo Company, Limited) is founded by Fusajiro Yamauchi to produce and market the playing card game Hanafuda.
September 28 » The General Conference on Weights and Measures (CGPM) defines the length of a meter.
Day of death June 29, 1970
The temperature on June 29, 1970 was between 10.9 °C and 17.3 °C and averaged 13.9 °C. There was 12.2 mm of rain during 3.5 hours. There was 1.4 hours of sunshine (8%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
January 12 » Biafra capitulates, ending the Nigerian Civil War.
March 26 » South Vietnamese President Nguyễn Văn Thiệu implements a land reform program to solve the problem of land tenancy.
September 2 » NASA announces the cancellation of two Apollo missions to the Moon, Apollo 15 (the designation is re-used by a later mission), and Apollo 19.
September 6 » Two passenger jets bound from Europe to New York are simultaneously hijacked by Palestinian terrorist members of the PFLP and taken to Dawson's Field, Jordan.
September 11 » The Dawson's Field hijackers release 88 of their hostages. The remaining hostages, mostly Jews and Israeli citizens, are held until September 25.
October 8 » Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn wins the Nobel Prize in literature.
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