The temperature on January 23, 1882 was about -0.3 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 78 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 87%. 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.
May 6 » The United States Congress passes the Chinese Exclusion Act.
May 20 » The Triple Alliance between the German Empire, Austria-Hungary and the Kingdom of Italy is formed.
July 26 » The Republic of Stellaland is founded in Southern Africa.
September 5 » The first United States Labor Day parade is held in New York City.
September 30 » Thomas Edison's first commercial hydroelectric power plant (later known as Appleton Edison Light Company) begins operation.
December 6 » Transit of Venus, second and last of the 19th century.
Day of marriage May 14, 1910
The temperature on May 14, 1910 was between 6.4 °C and 21.2 °C and averaged 14.2 °C. There was 0.6 mm of rain. There was 6.0 hours of sunshine (38%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. Source: KNMI
September 12 » Premiere performance of Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 8 in Munich (with a chorus of 852 singers and an orchestra of 171 players. Mahler's rehearsal assistant conductor was Bruno Walter).
October 5 » In a revolution in Portugal the monarchy is overthrown and a republic is declared.
October 6 » Eleftherios Venizelos is elected prime minister of Greece for the first of seven times.
November 10 » The date of Thomas A. Davis' opening of the San Diego Army and Navy Academy, although the official founding date is November 23, 1910.
December 21 » An underground explosion at the Hulton Bank Colliery No. 3 Pit in Over Hulton, Westhoughton, England, kills 344 miners.
Day of death July 18, 1960
The temperature on July 18, 1960 was between 12.4 °C and 20.2 °C and averaged 16.1 °C. There was 0.7 mm of rain during 0.6 hours. There was 10.9 hours of sunshine (67%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
February 1 » Four black students stage the first of the Greensboro sit-ins at a lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina.
March 4 » The French freighter La Coubre explodes in Havana, Cuba, killing 100.
May 6 » More than 20million viewers watch the first televised royal wedding when Princess Margaret marries Anthony Armstrong-Jones at Westminster Abbey.
August 1 » Dahomey (later renamed Benin) declares independence from France.
September 22 » The Sudanese Republic is renamed Mali after the withdrawal of Senegal from the Mali Federation.
December 14 » Convention against Discrimination in Education of UNESCO is adopted.
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