The temperature on February 22, 1890 was about 2.3 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the north. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 79%. Source: KNMI
April 7 » Completion of the first Lake Biwa Canal.
July 1 » Canada and Bermuda are linked by telegraph cable.
July 2 » The U.S. Congress passes the Sherman Antitrust Act.
August 6 » At Auburn Prison in New York, murderer William Kemmler becomes the first person to be executed by electric chair.
October 1 » Yosemite National Park is established by the U.S. Congress.
December 30 » Following the Wounded Knee Massacre, the United States Army and Lakota warriors face off in the Drexel Mission Fight.
Day of death January 31, 1963
The temperature on January 31, 1963 was between -10.4 °C and -4.4 °C and averaged -6.8 °C. There was 1.2 mm of rain during 2.8 hours. There was 5.8 hours of sunshine (64%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. Source: KNMI
March 8 » The Ba'ath Party comes to power in Syria in a coup d'état by a clique of quasi-leftist Syrian Army officers calling themselves the National Council of the Revolutionary Command.
April 16 » Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. pens his Letter from Birmingham Jail while incarcerated in Birmingham, Alabama for protesting against segregation.
May 15 » Project Mercury: The launch of the final Mercury mission, Mercury-Atlas 9 with astronaut Gordon Cooper on board. He becomes the first American to spend more than a day in space, and the last American to go into space alone.
July 19 » Joe Walker flies a North American X-15 to a record altitude of 106,010 meters (347,800 feet) on X-15 Flight 90. Exceeding an altitude of 100km, this flight qualifies as a human spaceflight under international convention.
August 18 » Civil rights movement: James Meredith becomes the first African American to graduate from the University of Mississippi.
November 23 » The BBC broadcasts An Unearthly Child (starring William Hartnell), the first episode of the first story from the first series of Doctor Who, which is now the world's longest running science fiction drama.
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