The temperature on May 11, 1885 was about 11.4 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. The air pressure was 8 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the west-northwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 54%. 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.
February 5 » King Leopold II of Belgium establishes the Congo as a personal possession.
February 23 » Sino-French War: French Army gains an important victory in the Battle of Đồng Đăng in the Tonkin region of Vietnam.
March 14 » The Mikado, a light opera by W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan, receives its first public performance at the Savoy Theatre in London.
May 2 » Cree and Assiniboine warriors win the Battle of Cut Knife, their largest victory over Canadian forces during the North-West Rebellion.
November 7 » The completion of Canada's first transcontinental railway is symbolized by the Last Spike ceremony at Craigellachie, British Columbia.
November 16 » Canadian rebel leader of the Métis and "Father of Manitoba" Louis Riel is executed for treason.
Day of death March 4, 1984
The temperature on March 4, 1984 was between -3.6 °C and 7.4 °C and averaged 1.7 °C. There was 6.9 hours of sunshine (62%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, November 4, 1982 to Monday, July 14, 1986 the cabinet Lubbers I, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
January 1 » Brunei becomes independent of the United Kingdom.
January 24 » Apple Computer places the Macintosh personal computer on sale in the United States.
April 4 » President Ronald Reagan calls for an international ban on chemical weapons.
October 11 » Aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger, astronaut Kathryn D. Sullivan becomes the first American woman to perform a space walk.
November 25 » Thirty-six top musicians gather in a Notting Hill studio and record Band Aid's "Do They Know It's Christmas?" in order to raise money for famine relief in Ethiopia.
December 3 » Bhopal disaster: A methyl isocyanate leak from a Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal, India, kills more than 3,800 people outright and injures 150,000–600,000 others (some 6,000 of whom would later die from their injuries) in one of the worst industrial disasters in history.
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