The temperature on May 26, 1876 was about 13.3 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain. The air pressure was 8 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the west-northwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 57%. 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).
January 15 » The first newspaper in Afrikaans, Die Afrikaanse Patriot, is published in Paarl.
April 11 » The Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks is organized.
June 17 » American Indian Wars: Battle of the Rosebud: 1,500 Sioux and Cheyenne led by Crazy Horse beat back General George Crook's forces at Rosebud Creek in Montana Territory.
August 31 » Ottoman Sultan Murad V is deposed and succeeded by his brother Abdul Hamid II.
September 7 » In Northfield, Minnesota, Jesse James and the James–Younger Gang attempt to rob the town's bank but are driven off by armed citizens.
November 25 » American Indian Wars: In retaliation for the American defeat at the Battle of the Little Bighorn, United States Army troops sack the sleeping village of Cheyenne Chief Dull Knife at the headwaters of the Powder River.
Day of marriage February 20, 1907
The temperature on February 20, 1907 was between 1.1 °C and 9.0 °C and averaged 3.7 °C. There was 10.7 mm of rain. There was 3.0 hours of sunshine (29%). The average windspeed was 6 Bft (strong wind) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from August 17, 1905 to February 11, 1908 the cabinet De Meester, with Mr. Th. de Meester (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
June 22 » The London Underground's Charing Cross, Euston and Hampstead Railway opens.
October 9 » Las Cruces, New Mexico is incorporated.
October 27 » Fifteen people are killed in Hungary when a gunman opens fire on a crowd gathered at a church consecration.
December 6 » A coal mine explosion at Monongah, West Virginia, kills 362 workers.
December 10 » The worst night of the Brown Dog riots in London, when 1,000 medical students clash with 400 police officers over the existence of a memorial for animals that have been vivisected.
December 17 » Ugyen Wangchuck is crowned first King of Bhutan.
Day of death August 12, 1954
The temperature on August 12, 1954 was between 11.0 °C and 16.5 °C and averaged 14.2 °C. There was 8.8 mm of rain during 7.2 hours. There was 0.6 hours of sunshine (4%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
April 8 » South African Airways Flight 201 A de Havilland DH.106 Comet 1 crashes into the sea during night killing 21 people.
May 13 » The anti-National Service Riots, by Chinese middle school students in Singapore, take place.
June 27 » The Obninsk Nuclear Power Plant, the Soviet Union's first nuclear power station, opens in Obninsk, near Moscow.
September 3 » The German submarineU-505 begins its move from a specially constructed dock to its site at Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry.
November 22 » The Humane Society of the United States is founded.
November 30 » In Sylacauga, Alabama, United States, the Hodges meteorite crashes through a roof and hits a woman taking an afternoon nap; this is the only documented case in the Western Hemisphere of a human being hit by a rock from space.
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