The temperature on August 29, 1880 was about 15.5 °C. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the east. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 63%. 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.
May 11 » Seven people are killed in the Mussel Slough Tragedy, a gun battle in California.
June 24 » First performance of O Canada at the Congrès national des Canadiens-Français. The song would later become the national anthem of Canada.
June 28 » Australian bushranger Ned Kelly is captured at Glenrowan.
July 27 » Second Anglo-Afghan War: Battle of Maiwand: Afghan forces led by Mohammad Ayub Khan defeat the British Army in battle near Maiwand, Afghanistan.
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.
November 11 » Australian bushranger Ned Kelly is hanged at Melbourne Gaol.
Day of marriage October 14, 1899
The temperature on October 14, 1899 was about 10.5 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 74%. Source: KNMI
February 14 » Voting machines are approved by the U.S. Congress for use in federal elections.
July 26 » Ulises Heureaux, the 27th President of the Dominican Republic, is assassinated.
November 2 » The Boers begin their 118-day siege of British-held Ladysmith during the Second Boer War.
November 29 » FC Barcelona is founded by Catalan, Spanish and Englishmen. It later develops into one of Spanish football's most iconic and strongest teams.
December 11 » Second Boer War: In the Battle of Magersfontein the Boers commanded by general Piet Cronjé inflict a defeat on the forces of the British Empire commanded by Lord Methuen trying to relieve the Siege of Kimberley.
Day of death January 13, 1958
The temperature on January 13, 1958 was between 0.5 °C and 7.7 °C and averaged 2.8 °C. There was 4.6 hours of sunshine (56%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. Source: KNMI
January 28 » The Lego company patents the design of its Lego bricks, still compatible with bricks produced today.
January 31 » Cold War: Space Race: The first successful American satellite detects the Van Allen radiation belt.
March 1 » Samuel Alphonsus Stritch is appointed Pro-Prefect of the Propagation of Faith and thus becomes the first U.S. member of the Roman Curia.
July 25 » The African Regroupment Party holds its first congress in Cotonou.
October 7 » The 1958 Pakistani coup d'état inaugurates a prolonged period of military rule.
October 27 » Iskander Mirza, the first President of Pakistan, is deposed by General Ayub Khan, who had been appointed the enforcer of martial law by Mirza 20 days earlier.
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