The temperature on May 30, 1881 was about 20.8 °C. The air pressure was 3 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the north-northeast. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 62%. 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.
April 11 » Spelman College is founded in Atlanta, Georgia as the Atlanta Baptist Female Seminary, an institute of higher education for African-American women.
May 10 » Carol I is crowned the King of the Romanian Kingdom.
May 12 » In North Africa, Tunisia becomes a French protectorate.
July 4 » In Alabama, the Tuskegee Institute opens.
September 20 » U.S. President Chester A. Arthur is sworn in, the morning after becoming President upon James A. Garfield's death.
November 3 » The Mapuche uprising of 1881 begins in Chile.
Day of marriage May 29, 1902
The temperature on May 29, 1902 was between 10.4 °C and 19.5 °C and averaged 13.7 °C. There was 5.0 hours of sunshine (31%). Source: KNMI
January 30 » The first Anglo-Japanese Alliance is signed in London.
March 7 » Second Boer War: Boers, led by Koos de la Rey, inflict the biggest defeat upon the British since the beginning of the war, at Tweebosch.
April 18 » The 7.5 Mw Guatemala earthquake shakes Guatemala with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe), killing between 800–2,000.
August 9 » Edward VII and Alexandra of Denmark are crowned King and Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
August 22 » Cadillac Motor Company is founded.
November 21 » The Philadelphia Football Athletics defeated the Kanaweola Athletic Club of Elmira, New York, 39–0, in the first ever professional American football night game.
Day of death June 1, 1959
The temperature on June 1, 1959 was between 5.7 °C and 18.8 °C and averaged 12.7 °C. There was 1.2 mm of rain during 2.0 hours. There was 4.8 hours of sunshine (29%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
February 20 » The Avro Arrow program to design and manufacture supersonic jet fighters in Canada is cancelled by the Diefenbaker government amid much political debate.
June 5 » The first government of Singapore is sworn in.
June 30 » A United States Air Force F-100 Super Sabre from Kadena Air Base, Okinawa, crashes into a nearby elementary school, killing 11 students plus six residents from the local neighborhood.
August 11 » Sheremetyevo International Airport, the second-largest airport in Russia, opens.
August 17 » Quake Lake is formed by the magnitude 7.5 1959 Hebgen Lake earthquake near Hebgen Lake in Montana.
December 13 » Archbishop Makarios III becomes the first President of Cyprus.
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