The temperature on June 30, 1881 was about 22.8 °C. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 53%. 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.
May 10 » Carol I is crowned the King of the Romanian Kingdom.
May 12 » In North Africa, Tunisia becomes a French protectorate.
May 21 » The American Red Cross is established by Clara Barton in Washington, D.C.
June 13 » The USS Jeannette is crushed in an Arctic Ocean ice pack.
July 4 » In Alabama, the Tuskegee Institute opens.
Day of death May 18, 1970
The temperature on May 18, 1970 was between 7.9 °C and 19.2 °C and averaged 13.0 °C. There was 12.7 hours of sunshine (80%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. Source: KNMI
March 5 » The Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons goes into effect after ratification by 43 nations.
April 1 » President Richard Nixon signs the Public Health Cigarette Smoking Act into law, requiring the Surgeon General's warnings on tobacco products and banning cigarette advertising on television and radio in the United States, effective 1 January 1971.
April 29 » Vietnam War: United States and South Vietnamese forces invade Cambodia to hunt Viet Cong.
August 24 » Vietnam War protesters bomb Sterling Hall at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, leading to an international manhunt for the perpetrators.
November 18 » U.S. President Richard Nixon asks the U.S. Congress for $155 million in supplemental aid for the Cambodian government.
December 21 » First flight of F-14 multi-role combat aircraft.
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