The temperature on November 19, 1881 was about 8.7 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the south-southeast. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 77%. 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 24 » China and Russia sign the Sino-Russian Ili Treaty.
April 28 » Billy the Kid escapes from the Lincoln County jail in Mesilla, New Mexico.
June 28 » The Austro–Serbian Alliance of 1881 is secretly signed.
June 29 » In Sudan, Muhammad Ahmad declares himself to be the Mahdi, the messianic redeemer of Islam.
July 23 » The Boundary Treaty of 1881 between Chile and Argentina is signed in Buenos Aires.
September 20 » U.S. President Chester A. Arthur is sworn in, the morning after becoming President upon James A. Garfield's death.
Day of marriage February 18, 1941
The temperature on February 18, 1941 was between 1.9 °C and 10.6 °C and averaged 5.5 °C. There was 0.9 mm of rain during 3.1 hours. There was 5.6 hours of sunshine (55%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from September 3, 1940 to July 27, 1941 the cabinet Gerbrandy I, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
In The Netherlands , there was from July 27, 1941 to February 23, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy II, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
March 15 » Philippine Airlines, the flag carrier of the Philippines takes its first flight between Manila (from Nielson Field) to Baguio City with a Beechcraft Model 18 making the airline the first and oldest commercial airline in Asia operating under its original name.
July 31 » The Holocaust: Under instructions from Adolf Hitler, Nazi official Hermann Göring, orders SS General Reinhard Heydrich to "submit to me as soon as possible a general plan of the administrative material and financial measures necessary for carrying out the desired Final Solution of the Jewish question."
September 8 » World War II: German forces begin the Siege of Leningrad.
November 24 » World War II: The United States grants Lend-Lease to the Free French Forces.
December 10 » World War II: The Royal Navy capital ships HMSPrince of Wales and HMSRepulse are sunk by Imperial Japanese Navy torpedo bombers near British Malaya.
December 11 » World War II: The Imperial Japanese Navy suffers its first loss of surface vessels during the Battle of Wake Island.
Day of death June 23, 1958
The temperature on June 23, 1958 was between 8.6 °C and 16.2 °C and averaged 12.1 °C. There was 11.0 mm of rain during 3.9 hours. There was 3.7 hours of sunshine (22%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
March 24 » Rock 'n' roll teen idol Elvis Presley is drafted in the U.S. Army.
April 5 » Ripple Rock, an underwater threat to navigation in the Seymour Narrows in Canada is destroyed in one of the largest non-nuclear controlled explosions of the time.
May 22 » The 1958 riots in Ceylon become a watershed in the race relations of various ethnic communities of Sri Lanka. The total deaths is estimated at 300, mostly Tamils.
August 23 » Chinese Civil War: The Second Taiwan Strait Crisis begins with the People's Liberation Army's bombardment of Quemoy.
November 25 » French Sudan gains autonomy as a self-governing member of the French Community.
November 28 » Chad, the Republic of the Congo, and Gabon become autonomous republics within the French Community.
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