The temperature on August 15, 1888 was about 14.6 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the northwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 77%. 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.
May 16 » Nikola Tesla delivers a lecture describing the equipment which will allow efficient generation and use of alternating currents to transmit electric power over long distances.
June 29 » George Edward Gouraud records Handel's Israel in Egypt onto a phonograph cylinder, thought for many years to be the oldest known recording of music.
August 21 » The first successful adding machine in the United States is patented by William Seward Burroughs.
October 14 » Louis Le Prince films the first motion picture, Roundhay Garden Scene.
October 17 » Thomas Edison files a patent for the Optical Phonograph (the first movie).
December 22 » The Christmas Meeting of 1888, considered to be the official start of the Faroese independence movement.
Day of death November 6, 1966
The temperature on November 6, 1966 was between 7.6 °C and 17.0 °C and averaged 12.1 °C. There was 1.7 hours of sunshine (18%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east. Source: KNMI
January 31 » The Soviet Union launches the unmanned Luna 9 spacecraft as part of the Luna program.
May 26 » British Guiana gains independence, becoming Guyana.
June 8 » An F-104 Starfighter collides with XB-70 Valkyrie prototype no. 2, destroying both aircraft during a photo shoot near Edwards Air Force Base. Joseph A. Walker, a NASA test pilot, and Carl Cross, a United States Air Force test pilot, are both killed.
June 14 » The Vatican announces the abolition of the Index Librorum Prohibitorum ("index of prohibited books"), which was originally instituted in 1557.
July 1 » The first color television transmission in Canada takes place from Toronto.
August 1 » Charles Whitman kills 16 people at the University of Texas at Austin before being killed by the police.
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