The temperature on October 16, 1893 was about 13.9 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 96%. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from August 21, 1891 to May 9, 1894 the cabinet Van Tienhoven, with Mr. G. van Tienhoven (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
January 6 » The Washington National Cathedral is chartered by Congress. The charter is signed by President Benjamin Harrison.
January 13 » The Independent Labour Party of the United Kingdom holds its first meeting.
May 1 » The World's Columbian Exposition opens in Chicago.
July 9 » Daniel Hale Williams, American heart surgeon, performs the first successful open-heart surgery in United States without anesthesia.
September 28 » Foundation of the Portuguese football club FC Porto.
December 4 » First Matabele War: A patrol of 34 British South Africa Company soldiers is ambushed and annihilated by more than 3,000 Matabele warriors on the Shangani River in Matabeleland.
Day of marriage March 12, 1914
The temperature on March 12, 1914 was between -0.4 °C and 9.0 °C and averaged 4.0 °C. There was 6.4 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from August 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
January 1 » The SPT Airboat Line becomes the world's first scheduled airline to use a winged aircraft.
May 17 » The Protocol of Corfu is signed, recognising full autonomy to Northern Epirus under nominal Albanian sovereignty.
June 28 » Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife Sophie are assassinated in Sarajevo; this is the casus belli of World War I.
August 12 » World War I: The United Kingdom declares war on Austria-Hungary; the countries of the British Empire follow suit.
September 9 » World War I: The creation of the Canadian Automobile Machine Gun Brigade, the first fully mechanized unit in the British Army.
October 18 » The Schoenstatt Movement is founded in Germany.
Day of death December 12, 1953
The temperature on December 12, 1953 was between 4.3 °C and 7.0 °C and averaged 6.1 °C. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east. Source: KNMI
May 18 » Jackie Cochran becomes the first woman to break the sound barrier.
June 18 » A United States Air Force C-124 crashes and burns near Tachikawa, Japan, killing 129.
June 30 » The first Chevrolet Corvette rolls off the assembly line in Flint, Michigan.
August 22 » The penal colony on Devil's Island is permanently closed.
October 29 » BCPA Flight 304 DC-6 crashes near San Francisco.
December 9 » Red Scare: General Electric announces that all communist employees will be discharged from the company.
Day of burial December 17, 1953
The temperature on December 17, 1953 was between 3.4 °C and 6.4 °C and averaged 4.7 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 1.0 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. Source: KNMI
February 28 » James Watson and Francis Crick announce to friends that they have determined the chemical structure of DNA; the formal announcement takes place on April 25 following publication in April's Nature (pub. April 2).
April 27 » Operation Moolah offers $50,000 to any pilot who defected with a fully mission-capable Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15 to South Korea. The first pilot was to receive $100,000.
June 17 » Cold War: East Germany Workers Uprising: In East Germany, the Soviet Union orders a division of troops into East Berlin to quell a rebellion.
June 18 » A United States Air Force C-124 crashes and burns near Tachikawa, Japan, killing 129.
July 26 » Cold War: Fidel Castro leads an unsuccessful attack on the Moncada Barracks, thus beginning the Cuban Revolution. The movement took the name of the date: 26th of July Movement
December 6 » Vladimir Nabokov completes his controversial novel Lolita.
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