The temperature on August 21, 1880 was about 21.8 °C. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the north-northeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 71%. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from August 20, 1879 to April 23, 1883 the cabinet Van Lijnden van Sandenburg, with Mr. C.Th. baron Van Lijnden van Sandenburg (conservatief-AR) as prime minister.
January 27 » Thomas Edison receives a patent for his incandescent lamp.
February 13 » Thomas Edison observes Thermionic emission.
May 11 » Seven people are killed in the Mussel Slough Tragedy, a gun battle in California.
May 13 » In Menlo Park, New Jersey, Thomas Edison performs the first test of his electric railway.
August 14 » Construction of Cologne Cathedral, the most famous landmark in Cologne, Germany, is completed.
December 16 » Outbreak of the First Boer War between the Boer South African Republic and the British Empire.
Day of marriage May 4, 1912
The temperature on May 4, 1912 was between 5.5 °C and 12.1 °C and averaged 8.8 °C. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north. Source: KNMI
January 6 » German geophysicist Alfred Wegener first presents his theory of continental drift.
January 8 » The African National Congress is founded, under the name South African Native National Congress (SANNC).
April 16 » Harriet Quimby becomes the first woman to fly an airplane across the English Channel.
August 14 » U.S. Marines invade Nicaragua to support the U.S.-backed government installed there after José Santos Zelaya had resigned three years earlier.
October 14 » Former president Theodore Roosevelt is shot and mildly wounded by John Flammang Schrank. With the fresh wound in his chest, and the bullet still within it, Roosevelt delivers his scheduled speech.
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