The temperature on December 17, 1888 was about 3.5 °C. The air pressure was 4 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 94%. 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.
In The Netherlands , there was from April 21, 1888 to August 21, 1891 the cabinet Mackay, with Mr. A. baron Mackay (AR) as prime minister.
January 13 » The National Geographic Society is founded in Washington, D.C.
May 13 » With the passage of the Lei Áurea ("Golden Law"), Empire of Brazil abolishes slavery.
August 14 » An audio recording of English composer Arthur Sullivan's "The Lost Chord", one of the first recordings of music ever made, is played during a press conference introducing Thomas Edison's phonograph in London, England.
August 21 » The first successful adding machine in the United States is patented by William Seward Burroughs.
August 31 » Mary Ann Nichols is murdered. She is the first of Jack the Ripper's confirmed victims.
October 30 » The Rudd Concession is granted by Matabeleland to agents of Cecil Rhodes.
Day of marriage February 16, 1912
The temperature on February 16, 1912 was between 2.8 °C and 8.1 °C and averaged 5.6 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
January 4 » The Scout Association is incorporated throughout the British Empire by royal charter.
February 14 » Arizona is admitted as the 48th and the last contiguous U.S. state.
April 17 » Russian troops open fire on striking goldfield workers in northeast Siberia, killing at least 150.
April 18 » The Cunard liner RMSCarpathia brings 705 survivors from the RMSTitanic to New York City.
October 7 » The Helsinki Stock Exchange sees its first transaction.
December 19 » William Van Schaick, captain of the steamship General Slocum which caught fire and killed over one thousand people, is pardoned by U.S. President William Howard Taft after 3⁄2 years in Sing Sing prison.
Day of death March 30, 1971
The temperature on March 30, 1971 was between -0.2 °C and 10.5 °C and averaged 4.4 °C. There was 9.0 hours of sunshine (70%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east. Source: KNMI
February 3 » New York Police Officer Frank Serpico is shot during a drug bust in Brooklyn and survives to later testify against police corruption.
May 27 » The Dahlerau train disaster, the worst railway accident in West Germany, kills 46 people and injures 25 near Wuppertal.
September 20 » Having weakened after making landfall in Nicaragua the previous day, Hurricane Irene regains enough strength to be renamed Hurricane Olivia, making it the first known hurricane to cross from the Atlantic Ocean into the Pacific.
October 21 » A gas explosion kills 22 people at a shopping centre near Glasgow, Scotland.
November 6 » The United States Atomic Energy Commission tests the largest U.S. underground hydrogen bomb, code-named Cannikin, on Amchitka Island in the Aleutians.
November 24 » During a severe thunderstorm over Washington state, a hijacker calling himself Dan Cooper (aka D. B. Cooper) parachutes from a Northwest Orient Airlines plane with $200,000 in ransom money. He has never been found.
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