The temperature on August 18, 1875 was about 21.7 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 5 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 73%. Source: KNMI
From August 27, 1874 till November 3, 1877 the Netherlands had a cabinet Heemskerk - Van Lijnden van Sandenburg with the prime ministers Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief) and Mr. C.Th. baron Van Lijnden van Sandenburg (AR).
February 24 » The SSGothenburg hits the Great Barrier Reef and sinks off the Australian east coast, killing approximately 100, including a number of high-profile civil servants and dignitaries.
March 3 » Georges Bizet's opera Carmen receives its première at the Opéra-Comique in Paris.
April 4 » Vltava, composed by Czech composer Bedřich Smetana and also known by its German name Die Moldau, premiered in Prague.
April 10 » India: Arya Samaj is founded in Mumbai by Swami Dayananda Saraswati to propagate his goal of social reform.
May 1 » Alexandra Palace reopens after being burned down in a fire in 1873.
September 3 » The first official game of polo is played in Argentina after being introduced by British ranchers.
Day of marriage April 8, 1914
The temperature on April 8, 1914 was between 4.6 °C and 11.6 °C and averaged 7.9 °C. There was 2.7 mm of rain. There was 10.3 hours of sunshine (77%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-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.
February 26 » HMHSBritannic, sister to the RMSTitanic, is launched at Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast.
July 11 » Babe Ruth makes his debut in Major League Baseball.
August 15 » A servant of American architect Frank Lloyd Wright murders seven people and sets fire to the living quarters of Wright's Wisconsin home, Taliesin.
September 1 » St. Petersburg, Russia, changes its name to Petrograd.
September 8 » World War I: Private Thomas Highgate becomes the first British soldier to be executed for desertion during the war.
September 14 » HMASAE1, the Royal Australian Navy's first submarine, was lost at sea with all hands near East New Britain, Papua New Guinea.
Day of death August 9, 1934
The temperature on August 9, 1934 was between 13.1 °C and 21.4 °C and averaged 17.4 °C. There was 5.4 mm of rain during 1.8 hours. There was 1.3 hours of sunshine (9%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
February 6 » Far-right leagues rally in front of the Palais Bourbon in an attempted coup against the French Third Republic, creating a political crisis in France.
May 23 » Infamous American bank robbers Bonnie and Clyde are ambushed by police and killed in Bienville Parish, Louisiana.
July 2 » The Night of the Long Knives ends with the death of Ernst Röhm.
July 25 » The Nazis assassinate Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss in a failed coup attempt.
November 23 » An Anglo-Ethiopian boundary commission in the Ogaden discovers an Italian garrison at Walwal, well within Ethiopian territory. This leads to the Abyssinia Crisis.
December 29 » Japan renounces the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922 and the London Naval Treaty of 1930.
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