The temperature on May 26, 1880 was about 21.4 °C. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 76 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 22 » Edward VII is proclaimed King after the death of his mother, Queen Victoria.
September 2 » Vice President of the United States Theodore Roosevelt utters the famous phrase, "Speak softly and carry a big stick" at the Minnesota State Fair.
October 24 » Annie Edson Taylor becomes the first person to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel.
October 29 » Leon Czolgosz, the assassin of U.S. President William McKinley, is executed by electrocution.
November 13 » The 1901 Caister lifeboat disaster.
December 12 » Guglielmo Marconi receives the first transatlantic radio signal (the letter "S" [***] in Morse Code), at Signal Hill in St John's, Newfoundland.
Day of death June 8, 1962
The temperature on June 8, 1962 was between 7.4 °C and 21.2 °C and averaged 15.1 °C. There was 15.6 hours of sunshine (94%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. Source: KNMI
January 3 » Pope John XXIII excommunicates Fidel Castro.
March 18 » The Évian Accords end the Algerian War of Independence, which had begun in 1954.
March 19 » The Algerian War of Independence ends.
August 16 » Eight years after the remaining French India territories were handed to India, the ratifications of the treaty are exchanged to make the transfer official.
September 8 » Last run of the famous Pines Express over the Somerset and Dorset Railway line (UK) fittingly using the last steam locomotive built by British Railways, BR Standard Class 9F 92220 Evening Star.
September 27 » The Yemen Arab Republic is established.
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