The temperature on January 7, 1881 was about -4.4 °C. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the east-northeast. The airpressure was 78 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 86%. 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.
April 11 » Spelman College is founded in Atlanta, Georgia as the Atlanta Baptist Female Seminary, an institute of higher education for African-American women.
April 14 » The Four Dead in Five Seconds Gunfight is fought in El Paso, Texas.
April 16 » In Dodge City, Kansas, Bat Masterson fights his last gun battle.
July 1 » General Order 70, the culmination of the Cardwell and Childers reforms of the British Army, comes into effect.
July 23 » The Boundary Treaty of 1881 between Chile and Argentina is signed in Buenos Aires.
November 19 » A meteorite lands near the village of Grossliebenthal, southwest of Odessa, Ukraine.
Day of marriage February 19, 1901
The temperature on February 19, 1901 was between -5.6 °C and -0.3 °C and averaged -1.9 °C. Source: KNMI
January 1 » Nigeria becomes a British protectorate.
June 17 » The College Board introduces its first standardized test, the forerunner to the SAT.
August 10 » The U.S. Steel recognition strike by the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers begins.
September 6 » Leon Czolgosz, an unemployed anarchist, shoots and fatally wounds US President William McKinley at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York.
September 17 » Second Boer War: A Boer column defeats a British force at the Battle of Blood River Poort.
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 January 11, 1956
The temperature on January 11, 1956 was between 1.8 °C and 7.2 °C and averaged 5.0 °C. There was 1.1 mm of rain during 1.4 hours. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
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