The temperature on November 22, 1882 was about 3.9 °C. There was 1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 90%. 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 2 » Queen Victoria narrowly escapes an assassination attempt by Roderick McLean in Windsor.
March 6 » The Serbian kingdom is re-founded.
June 6 » The Shewan forces of Menelik II of Ethiopia defeat the Gojjame army in the Battle of Embabo. The Shewans capture Negus Tekle Haymanot of Gojjam, and their victory leads to a Shewan hegemony over the territories south of the Abay River.
July 10 » War of the Pacific: Chile suffers its last military defeat in the Battle of La Concepción when a garrison of 77 men is annihilated by a 1,300-strong Peruvian force, many of them armed with spears.
July 11 » The British Mediterranean Fleet begins the Bombardment of Alexandria in Egypt as part of the Anglo-Egyptian War.
September 30 » Thomas Edison's first commercial hydroelectric power plant (later known as Appleton Edison Light Company) begins operation.
Day of marriage December 29, 1926
The temperature on December 29, 1926 was between 3.6 °C and 8.1 °C and averaged 5.9 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain. There was 0.7 hours of sunshine (9%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the northwest. Source: KNMI
May 22 » Chiang Kai-shek replaces the communists in Kuomintang China.
August 6 » Gertrude Ederle becomes the first woman to swim across the English Channel.
August 20 » Japan's public broadcasting company, Nippon Hōsō Kyōkai (NHK) is established.
October 14 » The children's book Winnie-the-Pooh, by A. A. Milne, is first published.
November 15 » The NBC radio network opens with 24 stations.
December 17 » Antanas Smetona assumes power in Lithuania as the 1926 coup d'état is successful.
Day of death February 5, 1965
The temperature on February 5, 1965 was between 2.4 °C and 7.1 °C and averaged 5.0 °C. There was 1.6 mm of rain during 3.9 hours. There was 4.2 hours of sunshine (45%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. Source: KNMI
February 12 » Malcolm X visits Smethwick in Birmingham following the racially-charged 1964 United Kingdom general election.
March 21 » Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. leads 3,200 people on the start of the third and finally successful civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama.
April 28 » United States occupation of the Dominican Republic: American troops land in the Dominican Republic to "forestall establishment of a Communist dictatorship" and to evacuate U.S. Army troops.
July 25 » Bob Dylan goes electric at the Newport Folk Festival, signaling a major change in folk and rock music.
October 15 » Vietnam War: A draft card is burned during an anti-war rally by the Catholic Worker Movement, resulting in the first arrest under a new law.
November 14 » Vietnam War: The Battle of Ia Drang begins: The first major engagement between regular American and North Vietnamese forces.
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