The temperature on December 21, 1881 was about 3.3 °C. There was 7 mm of rain. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the northwest. The airpressure was 74 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 91%. 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.
February 27 » First Boer War: The Battle of Majuba Hill takes place.
April 14 » The Four Dead in Five Seconds Gunfight is fought in El Paso, Texas.
May 21 » The American Red Cross is established by Clara Barton in Washington, D.C.
June 28 » The Austro–Serbian Alliance of 1881 is secretly signed.
July 4 » In Alabama, the Tuskegee Institute opens.
November 9 » Mapuche rebels attack the fortified Chilean settlement of Temuco.
Day of marriage June 7, 1911
The temperature on June 7, 1911 was between 11.2 °C and 19.2 °C and averaged 14.9 °C. There was 9.1 hours of sunshine (55%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. Source: KNMI
January 18 » Eugene B. Ely lands on the deck of the USSPennsylvania anchored in San Francisco Bay, the first time an aircraft landed on a ship.
March 25 » In New York City, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire kills 146 garment workers.
April 29 » Tsinghua University, one of mainland China's leading universities, is founded.
July 1 » Germany despatches the gunship SMSPanther to Morocco, sparking the Agadir Crisis.
October 5 » The Kowloon–Canton Railway commences service.
December 29 » Sun Yat-sen becomes the provisional President of the Republic of China; he formally takes office on January 1, 1912.
Day of death December 25, 1961
The temperature on December 25, 1961 was between -10.8 °C and -3.9 °C and averaged -8.1 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 6.3 hours of sunshine (82%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. Source: KNMI
January 25 » In Washington, D.C., President John F. Kennedy delivers the first live presidential television news conference.
April 17 » Bay of Pigs Invasion: A group of Cuban exiles financed and trained by the CIA lands at the Bay of Pigs in Cuba with the aim of ousting Fidel Castro.
April 30 » K-19, the first Soviet nuclear submarine equipped with nuclear missiles, is commissioned.
May 14 » Civil rights movement: A white mob twice attacks a Freedom Riders bus near Anniston, Alabama, before fire-bombing the bus and attacking the civil rights protesters who flee the burning vehicle.
September 1 » The first conference of the Non-Aligned Countries is held in Belgrade, Yugoslavia.
September 16 » Typhoon Nancy, with possibly the strongest winds ever measured in a tropical cyclone, makes landfall in Osaka, Japan, killing 173 people.
Day of burial December 29, 1961
The temperature on December 29, 1961 was between -2.7 °C and 6.0 °C and averaged 2.5 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain during 0.8 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. Source: KNMI
January 3 » Cold War: The United States severs diplomatic relations with Cuba over the latter's nationalization of American assets.
January 3 » The SL-1 nuclear reactor is destroyed by a steam explosion in the only reactor incident in the United States to cause immediate fatalities.
February 3 » The United States Air Forces begins Operation Looking Glass, and over the next 30 years, a "Doomsday Plane" is always in the air, with the capability of taking direct control of the United States' bombers and missiles in the event of the destruction of the SAC's command post.
February 16 » Explorer program: Explorer 9 (S-56a) is launched.
August 11 » The former Portuguese territories in India of Dadra and Nagar Haveli are merged to create the Union Territory Dadra and Nagar Haveli.
August 13 » Cold War: East Germany closes the border between the eastern and western sectors of Berlin to thwart its inhabitants' attempts to escape to the West, and construction of the Berlin Wall is started.
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