The temperature on November 27, 1880 was about 10.7 °C. The air pressure was 8 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 80%. 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.
May 13 » In Menlo Park, New Jersey, Thomas Edison performs the first test of his electric railway.
June 7 » War of the Pacific: The Battle of Arica, the assault and capture of Morro de Arica (Arica Cape), ends the Campaña del Desierto (Desert Campaign).
June 24 » First performance of O Canada at the Congrès national des Canadiens-Français. The song would later become the national anthem of Canada.
September 1 » The army of Mohammad Ayub Khan is routed by the British at the Battle of Kandahar, ending the Second Anglo-Afghan War.
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.
Day of marriage December 15, 1897
The temperature on December 15, 1897 was about 7.6 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 94%. Source: KNMI
April 30 » J. J. Thomson of the Cavendish Laboratory announces his discovery of the electron as a subatomic particle, over 1,800 times smaller than a proton (in the atomic nucleus), at a lecture at the Royal Institution in London.
June 22 » British colonial officers Charles Walter Rand and Lt. Charles Egerton Ayerst are assassinated in Pune, Maharashtra, India by the Chapekar brothers and Mahadeo Vinayak Ranade, who are later caught and hanged.
July 2 » British-Italian engineer Guglielmo Marconi obtains a patent for radio in London.
September 1 » The Tremont Street Subway in Boston opens, becoming the first underground rapid transit system in North America.
September 10 » Lattimer massacre: A sheriff's posse kills 19 unarmed striking immigrant miners in Lattimer, Pennsylvania, United States.
December 6 » London becomes the world's first city to host licensed taxicabs.
Day of death June 17, 1962
The temperature on June 17, 1962 was between 9.0 °C and 20.0 °C and averaged 14.8 °C. There was 8.8 hours of sunshine (53%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
January 10 » Apollo program: NASA announces plans to build the C-5 rocket launch vehicle, which became known as the Saturn V Moon rocket, which launched every Apollo Moon mission.
January 11 » Cold War: While tied to its pier in Polyarny, the Soviet submarine B-37 is destroyed when fire breaks out in its torpedo compartment.
May 10 » Marvel Comics publishes the first issue of The Incredible Hulk.
June 1 » Adolf Eichmann is hanged in Israel.
September 13 » An appeals court orders the University of Mississippi to admit James Meredith, the first African-American student admitted to the segregated university.
October 9 » A visible light-emitting diode (LED) is first demonstrated in Syracuse, New York.
Day of burial June 20, 1962
The temperature on June 20, 1962 was between 10.5 °C and 17.6 °C and averaged 14.3 °C. There was 2.1 mm of rain during 4.3 hours. There was 2.3 hours of sunshine (14%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
May 10 » Marvel Comics publishes the first issue of The Incredible Hulk.
August 17 » Peter Fechter is shot and bleeds to death while trying to cross the new Berlin Wall.
September 12 » President Kennedy delivers his "We choose to go to the Moon" speech at Rice University.
September 27 » The Yemen Arab Republic is established.
October 11 » The Second Vatican Council becomes the first ecumenical council of the Roman Catholic Church in 92 years.
October 14 » The Cuban Missile Crisis begins when an American reconnaissance aircraft takes photographs of Soviet ballistic missiles being installed in Cuba.
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