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.
April 14 » The Four Dead in Five Seconds Gunfight is fought in El Paso, Texas.
June 14 » The White Rajahs territories become the British protectorate of Sarawak.
June 29 » In Sudan, Muhammad Ahmad declares himself to be the Mahdi, the messianic redeemer of Islam.
July 1 » General Order 70, the culmination of the Cardwell and Childers reforms of the British Army, comes into effect.
July 2 » Charles J. Guiteau shoots and fatally wounds U.S. President James A. Garfield (who will die of complications from his wounds on September 19).
November 19 » A meteorite lands near the village of Grossliebenthal, southwest of Odessa, Ukraine.
Day of marriage September 5, 1900
The temperature on September 5, 1900 was about 12.5 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 94%. Source: KNMI
February 14 » British forces begin the Battle of the Tugela Heights in an effort to lift the Siege of Ladysmith.
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.
May 1 » The Scofield Mine disaster kills over 200 men in Scofield, Utah in what is to date the fifth-worst mining accident in United States history.
May 29 » N'Djamena is founded as Fort-Lamy by the French commander Émile Gentil.
July 19 » The first line of the Paris Métro opens for operation.
October 9 » The Cook Islands become a territory of the United Kingdom.
Day of death March 1, 1961
The temperature on March 1, 1961 was between 2.9 °C and 8.6 °C and averaged 5.7 °C. There was 1.0 hours of sunshine (9%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest. Source: KNMI
January 9 » British authorities announce they have uncovered the Soviet Portland Spy Ring in London.
April 30 » K-19, the first Soviet nuclear submarine equipped with nuclear missiles, is commissioned.
July 12 » Indian city Pune floods due to failure of the Khadakwasla and Panshet dams, killing at least two thousand people.
August 13 » Cold War: East Germany closes the border between the eastern and western sectors of Berlin to thwart its inhabitants' attempts to escape to the West, and construction of the Berlin Wall is started.
August 15 » Border guard Conrad Schumann flees from East Germany while on duty guarding the construction of the Berlin Wall.
September 12 » The African and Malagasy Union is founded.
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