The temperature on August 12, 1883 was about 17.6 °C. There was 2 mm of rain. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the west. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 72%. 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.
In The Netherlands , there was from April 23, 1884 to April 21, 1888 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief) as prime minister.
March 28 » Tonkin Campaign: French victory in the Battle of Gia Cuc.
May 20 » Krakatoa begins to erupt; the volcano explodes three months later, killing more than 36,000 people.
June 5 » The first regularly scheduled Orient Express departs Paris.
June 16 » The Victoria Hall theatre panic in Sunderland, England, kills 183 children.
August 26 » The 1883 eruption of Krakatoa begins its final, paroxysmal, stage.
November 18 » American and Canadian railroads institute five standard continental time zones, ending the confusion of thousands of local times.
Day of marriage May 18, 1904
The temperature on May 18, 1904 was between 8.8 °C and 14.7 °C and averaged 11.6 °C. There was 6.9 hours of sunshine (44%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
January 17 » Anton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard receives its premiere performance at the Moscow Art Theatre.
April 8 » Longacre Square in Midtown Manhattan is renamed Times Square after The New York Times.
April 30 » The Louisiana Purchase Exposition World's Fair opens in St. Louis, Missouri.
May 15 » Russo-Japanese War: The Russian minelayer Amur lays a minefield about 15 miles off Port Arthur and sinks Japan's battleships Hatsuse, 15,000 tons, with 496 crew and Yashima.
June 15 » A fire aboard the steamboat SSGeneral Slocum in New York City's East River kills 1,000.
June 16 » Eugen Schauman assassinates Nikolay Bobrikov, Governor-General of Finland.
Day of death September 23, 1959
The temperature on September 23, 1959 was between 6.2 °C and 19.6 °C and averaged 12.5 °C. There was 5.6 hours of sunshine (46%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
January 8 » Charles de Gaulle is proclaimed as the first President of the French Fifth Republic.
January 30 » The forces of the Sultanate of Muscat occupy the last strongholds of the Imamate of Oman, Saiq and Shuraijah, marking the end of Jebel Akhdar War in Oman.
February 9 » The R-7 Semyorka, the first intercontinental ballistic missile, becomes operational at Plesetsk, USSR.
July 7 » Venus occults the star Regulus. This rare event is used to determine the diameter of Venus and the structure of the Venusian atmosphere.
August 3 » Portugal's state police force PIDE fires upon striking workers in Bissau, Portuguese Guinea, killing over 50 people.
November 19 » The Ford Motor Company announces the discontinuation of the unpopular Edsel.
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