The temperature on January 18, 1881 was about -7.6 °C. There was 2 mm of rain. The air pressure was 16 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the east-northeast. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 94%. 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.
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.
July 14 » Billy the Kid is shot and killed by Pat Garrett outside Fort Sumner.
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 death May 2, 1911
The temperature on May 2, 1911 was between 5.1 °C and 16.2 °C and averaged 11.0 °C. There was 1.9 hours of sunshine (13%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
January 5 » Kappa Alpha Psi, the world's third oldest and largest black fraternity, is founded at Indiana University.
January 26 » Glenn Curtiss flies the first successful American seaplane.
May 21 » President of Mexico Porfirio Díaz and the revolutionary Francisco Madero sign the Treaty of Ciudad Juárez to put an end to the fighting between the forces of both men, concluding the initial phase of the Mexican Revolution.
May 31 » The President of Mexico Porfirio Díaz flees the country during the Mexican Revolution.
May 31 » The RMS Titanic is launched in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
August 29 » The Canadian Naval Service becomes the Royal Canadian Navy.
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