The temperature on January 25, 1880 was about -0.8 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the east-southeast. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 87%. 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.
January 27 » Thomas Edison receives a patent for his incandescent lamp.
February 13 » Thomas Edison observes Thermionic emission.
May 13 » In Menlo Park, New Jersey, Thomas Edison performs the first test of his electric railway.
June 29 » France annexes Tahiti, renaming the independent Kingdom of Tahiti as "Etablissements de français de l'Océanie".
September 16 » The Cornell Daily Sun prints its first issue in Ithaca, New York. The Sun is the United States' oldest, continuously-independent college daily.
November 11 » Australian bushranger Ned Kelly is hanged at Melbourne Gaol.
Day of marriage October 1, 1902
The temperature on October 1, 1902 was between 6.0 °C and 12.8 °C and averaged 9.7 °C. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). Source: KNMI
February 27 » Second Boer War: Australian soldiers Harry "Breaker" Morant and Peter Handcock are executed in Pretoria after being convicted of war crimes.
March 6 » Real Madrid CF is founded.
May 17 » Greek archaeologist Valerios Stais discovers the Antikythera mechanism, an ancient mechanical analog computer.
May 20 » Cuba gains independence from the United States. Tomás Estrada Palma becomes the country's first President.
July 17 » Willis Carrier creates the first air conditioner in Buffalo, New York.
August 9 » Edward VII and Alexandra of Denmark are crowned King and Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
Day of death May 30, 1961
The temperature on May 30, 1961 was between 4.3 °C and 15.4 °C and averaged 10.5 °C. There was 14.8 hours of sunshine (91%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. Source: KNMI
March 30 » The Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs is signed in New York City.
April 12 » Cold War: Space Race: The Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becomes the first human to travel into outer space and perform the first manned orbital flight, Vostok 1.
May 9 » FCC Chairman Newton N. Minow gives his Wasteland Speech.
May 19 » Venera program: Venera 1 becomes the first man-made object to fly by another planet by passing Venus (the probe had lost contact with Earth a month earlier and did not send back any data).
September 16 » Pakistan establishes its Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission with Abdus Salam as its head.
October 27 » NASA tests the first Saturn I rocket in Mission Saturn-Apollo 1.
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