The temperature on January 9, 1890 was about 6.4 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 85%. Source: KNMI
July 3 » Idaho is admitted as the 43rd U.S. state.
July 26 » In Buenos Aires, Argentina the Revolución del Parque takes place, forcing President Miguel Ángel Juárez Celman's resignation.
August 7 » Anna Månsdotter became the last woman to be executed in Sweden for the 1889 Yngsjö murder.
October 1 » Yosemite National Park is established by the U.S. Congress.
October 11 » In Washington, D.C., the Daughters of the American Revolution is founded.
October 12 » Uddevalla Suffrage Association is formed.
Day of marriage February 2, 1919
The temperature on February 2, 1919 was between -7.2 °C and -4.8 °C and averaged -6.2 °C. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from September 9, 1918 to September 18, 1922 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck I, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
January 15 » Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht, two of the most prominent socialists in Germany, are tortured and murdered by the Freikorps at the end of the Spartacist uprising.
February 6 » The five-day Seattle General Strike begins, as more than 65,000 workers in the city of Seattle, Washington, walk off the job.
February 14 » The Polish–Soviet War begins.
April 16 » Mohandas Gandhi organizes a day of "prayer and fasting" in response to the killing of Indian protesters in the Jallianwala Bagh massacre by the British colonial troops three days earlier.
September 18 » Fritz Pollard becomes the first African American to play professional football for a major team, the Akron Pros.
October 3 » Cincinnati Reds pitcher Adolfo Luque becomes the first Latin player to appear in a World Series.
Day of death December 5, 1962
The temperature on December 5, 1962 was between -9.0 °C and 3.9 °C and averaged -5.0 °C. There was 6.5 hours of sunshine (81%). The almost cloudless was. Source: KNMI
January 12 » Vietnam War: Operation Chopper, the first American combat mission in the war, takes place.
February 10 » Cold War: Captured American U2 spy-plane pilot Gary Powers is exchanged for captured Soviet spy Rudolf Abel.
May 10 » Marvel Comics publishes the first issue of The Incredible Hulk.
June 11 » Frank Morris, John Anglin and Clarence Anglin allegedly become the only prisoners to escape from the prison on Alcatraz Island.
October 3 » Project Mercury: Wally Schirra in Sigma 7 launched from Cape Canaveral for a six-orbit flight.
October 25 » Cuban Missile Crisis: Adlai Stevenson shows the United Nations Security Council reconnaissance photographs of Soviet ballistic missiles in Cuba.
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