The temperature on January 14, 1881 was about -12.3 °C. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the northeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 89%. 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.
May 21 » The American Red Cross is established by Clara Barton in Washington, D.C.
June 28 » The Austro–Serbian Alliance of 1881 is secretly signed.
July 4 » In Alabama, the Tuskegee Institute opens.
July 23 » The Boundary Treaty of 1881 between Chile and Argentina is signed in Buenos Aires.
Day of marriage January 29, 1904
The temperature on January 29, 1904 was between 0.7 °C and 7.4 °C and averaged 4.1 °C. There was 1.2 hours of sunshine (13%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
January 8 » The Blackstone Library is dedicated, marking the beginning of the Chicago Public Library system.
February 8 » Aceh War: Dutch Colonial Army's Marechaussee regiment led by General G.C.E. van Daalen launch military campaign to capture Gayo Highland, Alas Highland, and Batak Highland in Dutch East Indies' Northern Sumatra region, which ends with genocide to Acehnese and Bataks people.
May 4 » The United States begins construction of the Panama Canal.
May 5 » Pitching against the Philadelphia Athletics at the Huntington Avenue Grounds, Cy Young of the Boston Americans throws the first perfect game in the modern era of baseball.
June 15 » A fire aboard the steamboat SSGeneral Slocum in New York City's East River kills 1,000.
November 16 » English engineer John Ambrose Fleming receives a patent for the thermionic valve (vacuum tube).
Day of death January 19, 1965
The temperature on January 19, 1965 was between 0.1 °C and 5.0 °C and averaged 2.2 °C. There was 5.1 mm of rain during 2.9 hours. There was 1.7 hours of sunshine (20%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
March 2 » The US and Republic of Vietnam Air Force begin Operation Rolling Thunder, a sustained bombing campaign against North Vietnam.
April 28 » United States occupation of the Dominican Republic: American troops land in the Dominican Republic to "forestall establishment of a Communist dictatorship" and to evacuate U.S. Army troops.
July 16 » The Mont Blanc Tunnel linking France and Italy opens.
August 5 » The Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 begins as Pakistani soldiers cross the Line of Control dressed as locals.
August 15 » The Beatles play to nearly 60,000 fans at Shea Stadium in New York City, an event later regarded as the birth of stadium rock.
December 16 » Vietnam War: General William Westmoreland sends U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara a request for 243,000 more men by the end of 1966.
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