The temperature on October 23, 1881 was about 4.8 °C. There was 3 mm of rain. The air pressure was 5 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the east-northeast. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 97%. 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.
April 14 » The Four Dead in Five Seconds Gunfight is fought in El Paso, Texas.
April 28 » Billy the Kid escapes from the Lincoln County jail in Mesilla, New Mexico.
November 7 » Mapuche rebels attack the Chilean settlement of Nueva Imperial, as defenders fled to the hills and the settlement was effectively destroyed.
December 4 » The first edition of the Los Angeles Times is published.
Day of marriage May 3, 1901
The temperature on May 3, 1901 was between 6.0 °C and 17.7 °C and averaged 12.9 °C. There was 13.1 hours of sunshine (87%). Source: KNMI
January 1 » The British colonies of New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, South Australia, Tasmania, and Western Australia federate as the Commonwealth of Australia; Edmund Barton is appointed the first Prime Minister.
February 20 » The legislature of Hawaii Territory convenes for the first time.
March 1 » The Australian Army is formed.
June 11 » The boundaries of the Colony of New Zealand are extended by the UK to include the Cook Islands.
September 6 » Leon Czolgosz, an unemployed anarchist, shoots and fatally wounds US President William McKinley at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York.
November 8 » Gospel riots: Bloody clashes take place in Athens following the translation of the Gospels into demotic Greek.
Day of death August 12, 1953
The temperature on August 12, 1953 was between 15.3 °C and 30.9 °C and averaged 23.6 °C. There was 8.0 hours of sunshine (54%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east. Source: KNMI
March 6 » Georgy Malenkov succeeds Joseph Stalin as Premier of the Soviet Union and First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
May 25 » The first public television station in the United States officially begins broadcasting as KUHT from the campus of the University of Houston.
September 7 » Nikita Khrushchev is elected first secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
September 12 » U.S. Senator and future President John Fitzgerald Kennedy marries Jacqueline Lee Bouvier at St. Mary's Church in Newport, Rhode Island.
December 9 » Red Scare: General Electric announces that all communist employees will be discharged from the company.
December 24 » Tangiwai disaster: In New Zealand's North Island, at Tangiwai, a railway bridge is damaged by a lahar and collapses beneath a passenger train, killing 151 people.
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