The temperature on March 20, 1889 was about 7.9 °C. There was 1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 16 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the south. The airpressure was 74 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 85%. Source: KNMI
January 30 » Archduke Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria, heir to the Austro-Hungarian crown, is found dead with his mistress Baroness Mary Vetsera in the Mayerling.
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 11 » An attack upon a U.S. Army paymaster and escort results in the theft of over $28,000 and the award of two Medals of Honor.
June 29 » Hyde Park and several other Illinois townships vote to be annexed by Chicago, forming the largest United States city in area and second largest in population at the time.
August 13 » William Gray of Hartford, Connecticut is granted United States Patent Number 408,709 for "Coin-controlled apparatus for telephones."
Day of marriage November 15, 1911
The temperature on November 15, 1911 was between 0.7 °C and 8.8 °C and averaged 5.0 °C. There was 1.5 hours of sunshine (17%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
June 16 » IBM founded as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company in Endicott, New York.
September 1 » The armored cruiser Georgios Averof is commissioned into the Greek Navy. It now serves as a museum ship.
September 23 » Pilot Earle Ovington makes the first official airmail delivery in America under the authority of the United States Post Office Department
November 3 » Chevrolet officially enters the automobile market in competition with the Ford Model T.
December 24 » Lackawanna Cut-Off railway line opens in New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
December 29 » Mongolia gains independence from the Qing dynasty, enthroning 8th Jebtsundamba Khutughtu as Khagan of Mongolia.
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