The temperature on January 28, 1879 was about -1.5 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the north-northeast. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 88%. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from November 3, 1877 to August 20, 1879 the cabinet Kappeijne van de Coppello, with Mr. J. Kappeijne van de Coppello (liberaal) as prime minister.
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 2 » American statesman and diplomat John Hay announces the Open Door Policy to promote trade with China.
February 7 » Second Boer War: British troops fail in their third attempt to lift the Siege of Ladysmith.
February 9 » The Davis Cup competition is established.
February 18 » Second Boer War: Imperial forces suffer their worst single-day loss of life on Bloody Sunday, the first day of the Battle of Paardeberg.
April 2 » The United States Congress passes the Foraker Act, giving Puerto Rico limited self-rule.
July 29 » In Italy, King Umberto I of Italy is assassinated by the anarchist Gaetano Bresci.
Day of death September 28, 1962
The temperature on September 28, 1962 was between 5.7 °C and 17.8 °C and averaged 11.8 °C. There was 6.5 hours of sunshine (55%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east. Source: KNMI
January 11 » An avalanche on Huascarán in Peru causes around 4,000 deaths.
February 10 » Cold War: Captured American U2 spy-plane pilot Gary Powers is exchanged for captured Soviet spy Rudolf Abel.
March 29 » Arturo Frondizi, the president of Argentina, is overthrown in a military coup by Argentina's armed forces, ending an 11⁄2 day constitutional crisis.
August 6 » Jamaica becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
September 25 » The People's Democratic Republic of Algeria is formally proclaimed. Ferhat Abbas is elected President of the provisional government.
October 27 » Major Rudolf Anderson of the United States Air Force becomes the only direct human casualty of the Cuban Missile Crisis when his U-2 reconnaissance airplane is shot down over Cuba by a Soviet-supplied surface-to-air missile.
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