The temperature on May 8, 1881 was about 13.1 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the north-northwest. The airpressure was 78 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 75%. 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 25 » Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell form the Oriental Telephone Company.
February 24 » China and Russia sign the Sino-Russian Ili Treaty.
February 27 » First Boer War: The Battle of Majuba Hill takes place.
March 13 » Alexander II of Russia is assassinated.
April 28 » Billy the Kid escapes from the Lincoln County jail in Mesilla, New Mexico.
September 20 » U.S. President Chester A. Arthur is sworn in, the morning after becoming President upon James A. Garfield's death.
Day of death July 16, 1966
The temperature on July 16, 1966 was between 10.8 °C and 16.7 °C and averaged 13.2 °C. There was 11.2 mm of rain during 6.8 hours. There was 0.9 hours of sunshine (6%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. Source: KNMI
January 17 » Palomares incident: A B-52 bomber collides with a KC-135 Stratotanker over Spain, killing seven airmen, and dropping three 70-kiloton nuclear bombs near the town of Palomares and another one into the sea.
June 8 » Topeka, Kansas, is devastated by a tornado that registers as an "F5" on the Fujita scale: The first to exceed US$100million in damages. Sixteen people are killed, hundreds more injured, and thousands of homes damaged or destroyed.
July 18 » A racially charged incident in a bar sparks the six-day Hough riots in Cleveland, Ohio; 1,700 Ohio National Guard troops intervene to restore order.
August 29 » Leading Egyptian thinker Sayyid Qutb is executed for plotting the assassination of President Gamal Abdel Nasser.
October 22 » The Supremes become the first all-female music group to attain a No. 1 selling album (The Supremes A' Go-Go).
November 30 » Barbados becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
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