The temperature on May 18, 1881 was about 11.7 °C. There was 3 mm of rain. The air pressure was 10 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the southwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 94%. 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.
March 1 » The first Minnesota State Capitol burns down.
April 16 » In Dodge City, Kansas, Bat Masterson fights his last gun battle.
April 28 » Billy the Kid escapes from the Lincoln County jail in Mesilla, New Mexico.
June 13 » The USS Jeannette is crushed in an Arctic Ocean ice pack.
July 1 » General Order 70, the culmination of the Cardwell and Childers reforms of the British Army, comes into effect.
November 7 » Mapuche rebels attack the Chilean settlement of Nueva Imperial, as defenders fled to the hills and the settlement was effectively destroyed.
Day of death November 9, 1957
The temperature on November 9, 1957 was between 5.3 °C and 7.8 °C and averaged 7.0 °C. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. Source: KNMI
April 6 » Greek shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis buys the Hellenic National Airlines (TAE) and founds Olympic Airlines.
June 10 » John Diefenbaker leads the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada to a stunning upset in the 1957 Canadian federal election, ending 22 years of Liberal Party government.
July 6 » Althea Gibson wins the Wimbledon championships, becoming the first black athlete to do so.
August 28 » U.S. Senator Strom Thurmond begins a filibuster to prevent the Senate from voting on Civil Rights Act of 1957; he stopped speaking 24 hours and 18 minutes later, the longest filibuster ever conducted by a single Senator.
September 22 » In Haiti, François Duvalier is elected president.
September 24 » President Eisenhower sends the 101st Airborne Division to Little Rock, Arkansas, to enforce desegregation.
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