The temperature on March 31, 1881 was about 2.2 °C. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the east-northeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 61%. 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.
June 13 » The USS Jeannette is crushed in an Arctic Ocean ice pack.
June 14 » The White Rajahs territories become the British protectorate of Sarawak.
October 13 » First known conversation in modern Hebrew by Eliezer Ben-Yehuda and friends.
November 9 » Mapuche rebels attack the fortified Chilean settlement of Temuco.
Day of marriage February 28, 1900
The temperature on February 28, 1900 was about 4.5 °C. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 96%. Source: KNMI
January 23 » Second Boer War: The Battle of Spion Kop between the forces of the South African Republic and the Orange Free State and British forces ends in a British defeat.
April 2 » The United States Congress passes the Foraker Act, giving Puerto Rico limited self-rule.
May 1 » The Scofield Mine disaster kills over 200 men in Scofield, Utah in what is to date the fifth-worst mining accident in United States history.
May 24 » Second Boer War: The United Kingdom annexes the Orange Free State.
June 14 » Hawaii becomes a United States territory.
November 7 » The People's Party is founded in Cuba.
Day of death May 16, 1961
The temperature on May 16, 1961 was between 6.8 °C and 16.9 °C and averaged 12.3 °C. There was 10.4 hours of sunshine (66%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. Source: KNMI
February 27 » The first congress of the Spanish Trade Union Organisation is inaugurated.
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.
May 24 » American civil rights movement: Freedom Riders are arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, for "disturbing the peace" after disembarking from their bus.
May 28 » Peter Benenson's article The Forgotten Prisoners is published in several internationally read newspapers. This will later be thought of as the founding of the human rights organization Amnesty International.
July 23 » The Sandinista National Liberation Front is founded in Nicaragua.
October 27 » NASA tests the first Saturn I rocket in Mission Saturn-Apollo 1.
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