The temperature on April 10, 1887 was about 10.4 °C. The air pressure was 9 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the north-northeast. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 65%. 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 2 » In Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania the first Groundhog Day is observed.
April 28 » A week after being arrested by the Prussian Secret Police, French police inspector Guillaume Schnaebelé is released on order of William I, German Emperor, defusing a possible war.
July 26 » Publication of the Unua Libro, founding the Esperanto movement.
September 5 » A fire at the Theatre Royal, Exeter, kills 186.
November 9 » The United States receives rights to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
November 13 » Bloody Sunday clashes in central London.
Day of marriage May 20, 1911
The temperature on May 20, 1911 was between 8.8 °C and 15.8 °C and averaged 11.3 °C. There was 4.2 hours of sunshine (26%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north. Source: KNMI
January 3 » A magnitude 7.7 earthquake destroys the city of Almaty in Russian Turkestan.
March 25 » In New York City, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire kills 146 garment workers.
July 1 » Germany despatches the gunship SMSPanther to Morocco, sparking the Agadir Crisis.
August 1 » Harriet Quimby takes her pilot's test and becomes the first U.S. woman to earn an Aero Club of America aviator's certificate.
November 17 » Omega Psi Phi fraternity was founded on the campus of Howard University in Washington, D.C.
November 19 » The Doom Bar in Cornwall claimed two ships, Island Maid and Angele, the latter killing the entire crew except the captain.
Day of death February 6, 1972
The temperature on February 6, 1972 was between 1.2 °C and 9.9 °C and averaged 5.3 °C. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from April 5, 1967 to Tuesday, July 6, 1971 the cabinet Biesheuvel I, with Mr. B.W. Biesheuvel (ARP) as prime minister.
In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, July 20, 1972 to Friday, May 11, 1973 the cabinet Biesheuvel II, with Mr. B.W. Biesheuvel (ARP) as prime minister.
February 28 » China–United States relations: The United States and China sign the Shanghai Communiqué.
April 10 » Tombs containing bamboo slips, among them Sun Tzu's Art of War and Sun Bin's lost military treatise, are accidentally discovered by construction workers in Shandong.
April 25 » Vietnam War: Nguyen Hue Offensive: The North Vietnamese 320th Division forces 5,000 South Vietnamese troops to retreat and traps about 2,500 others northwest of Kontum.
May 8 » Vietnam War: U.S. President Richard Nixon announces his order to place naval mines in major North Vietnamese ports in order to stem the flow of weapons and other goods to that nation.
July 11 » The first game of the World Chess Championship 1972 between challenger Bobby Fischer and defending champion Boris Spassky starts.
November 10 » Southern Airways Flight 49 from Birmingham, Alabama is hijacked and, at one point, is threatened with crashing into the nuclear installation at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. After two days, the plane lands in Havana, Cuba, where the hijackers are jailed by Fidel Castro.
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