The temperature on October 18, 1881 was about 8.6 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the north-northeast. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 68%. 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 25 » Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell form the Oriental Telephone Company.
April 11 » Spelman College is founded in Atlanta, Georgia as the Atlanta Baptist Female Seminary, an institute of higher education for African-American women.
April 16 » In Dodge City, Kansas, Bat Masterson fights his last gun battle.
May 10 » Carol I is crowned the King of the Romanian Kingdom.
July 1 » The world's first international telephone call is made between St. Stephen, New Brunswick, Canada, and Calais, Maine, United States.
August 27 » The Georgia hurricane makes landfall near Savannah, Georgia, resulting in an estimated 700 deaths.
Day of marriage November 29, 1901
The temperature on November 29, 1901 was between 1.9 °C and 8.2 °C and averaged 5.6 °C. There was 1.6 hours of sunshine (20%). Source: KNMI
January 1 » Nigeria becomes a British protectorate.
May 3 » The Great Fire of 1901 begins in Jacksonville, Florida.
July 24 » O. Henry is released from prison in Columbus, Ohio, after serving three years for embezzlement from a bank.
September 14 » U.S. President William McKinley dies after being mortally wounded on September 6 by anarchist Leon Czolgosz and is succeeded by Vice President Theodore Roosevelt.
October 29 » Leon Czolgosz, the assassin of U.S. President William McKinley, is executed by electrocution.
November 1 » Sigma Phi Epsilon, the largest national male collegiate fraternity, is established at Richmond College, in Richmond, Virginia.
Day of death August 1, 1978
The temperature on August 1, 1978 was between 14.9 °C and 21.0 °C and averaged 18.7 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 1.4 hours of sunshine (9%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, December 19, 1977 to Friday, September 11, 1981 the cabinet Van Agt I, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA/KVP) as prime minister.
February 13 » Hilton bombing: a bomb explodes in a refuse truck outside the Hilton Hotel in Sydney, Australia, killing two refuse collectors and a policeman.
March 23 » The first UNIFIL troops arrived in Lebanon for peacekeeping mission along the Blue Line.
June 11 » Altaf Hussain founds the student political movement All Pakistan Muhajir Students Organisation (APMSO) in Karachi University.
July 10 » ABC World News Tonight premieres on ABC.
July 25 » Puerto Rican police shoot two nationalists in the Cerro Maravilla murders.
October 3 » A Finnish Air Force DC-3 crashes, killing all 15 people on board.
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