The temperature on March 7, 1889 was about 4.3 °C. The air pressure was 66 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the south-southeast. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 94%. Source: KNMI
January 8 » Herman Hollerith is issued US patent #395,791 for the 'Art of Applying Statistics' — his punched card calculator.
January 15 » The Coca-Cola Company, then known as the Pemberton Medicine Company, is incorporated in Atlanta.
May 2 » Menelik II, Emperor of Ethiopia, signs the Treaty of Wuchale, giving Italy control over Eritrea.
August 4 » The Great Fire of Spokane, Washington destroys some 32 blocks of the city, prompting a mass rebuilding project.
September 23 » Nintendo Koppai (Later Nintendo Company, Limited) is founded by Fusajiro Yamauchi to produce and market the playing card game Hanafuda.
November 15 » Brazil is declared a republic by Marshal Deodoro da Fonseca as Emperor Pedro II is deposed in a military coup.
Day of marriage April 8, 1915
The temperature on April 8, 1915 was between 2.8 °C and 11.0 °C and averaged 7.0 °C. There was 7.9 hours of sunshine (59%). 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 19 » World War I: The first naval attack on the Dardanelles begins when a strong Anglo-French task force bombards Ottoman artillery along the coast of Gallipoli.
May 9 » World War I: Second Battle of Artois between German and French forces.
August 27 » Attempted assassination of Bishop Patrick Heffron, bishop of the Diocese of Winona by Rev. Louis M. Lesches.
September 5 » The pacifist Zimmerwald Conference begins.
September 25 » World War I: The Second Battle of Champagne begins.
October 12 » World War I: British nurse Edith Cavell is executed by a German firing squad for helping Allied soldiers escape from Belgium
Day of death November 11, 1958
The temperature on November 11, 1958 was between -2.2 °C and 4.6 °C and averaged 1.0 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
January 1 » European Economic Community is established.
February 3 » Founding of the Benelux Economic Union, creating a testing ground for a later European Economic Community.
March 27 » Nikita Khrushchev becomes Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union.
May 15 » The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 3.
October 28 » John XXIII is elected Pope.
December 5 » Subscriber Trunk Dialling (STD) is inaugurated in the United Kingdom by Queen Elizabeth II when she speaks to the Lord Provost in a call from Bristol to Edinburgh.
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