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.
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.
June 7 » War of the Pacific: The Battle of Arica, the assault and capture of Morro de Arica (Arica Cape), ends the Campaña del Desierto (Desert Campaign).
August 14 » Construction of Cologne Cathedral, the most famous landmark in Cologne, Germany, is completed.
September 16 » The Cornell Daily Sun prints its first issue in Ithaca, New York. The Sun is the United States' oldest, continuously-independent college daily.
November 11 » Australian bushranger Ned Kelly is hanged at Melbourne Gaol.
Day of marriage March 21, 1901
The temperature on March 21, 1901 was between -1.1 °C and 5.9 °C and averaged 1.9 °C. There was 7.7 hours of sunshine (63%). Source: KNMI
January 22 » Edward VII is proclaimed King after the death of his mother, Queen Victoria.
February 2 » Funeral of 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.
September 17 » Second Boer War: Boers capture a squadron of the 17th Lancers at the Battle of Elands River.
December 3 » In a State of the Union message, U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt delivers a 20,000-word speech to the House of Representatives asking Congress to curb the power of trusts "within reasonable limits".
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.
May 27 » The Centralia mine fire is ignited in the town's landfill above a coal mine.
May 31 » The West Indies Federation dissolves.
September 25 » The People's Democratic Republic of Algeria is formally proclaimed. Ferhat Abbas is elected President of the provisional government.
September 27 » The Yemen Arab Republic is established.
October 27 » Major Rudolf Anderson of the United States Air Force becomes the only direct human casualty of the Cuban Missile Crisis when his U-2 reconnaissance airplane is shot down over Cuba by a Soviet-supplied surface-to-air missile.
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