The temperature on January 12, 1881 was about -3.7 °C. There was 1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 74 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.
January 25 » Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell form the Oriental Telephone Company.
February 16 » The Canadian Pacific Railway is incorporated by Act of Parliament at Ottawa (44th Vic., c.1).
March 13 » Alexander II of Russia is assassinated.
June 13 » The USS Jeannette is crushed in an Arctic Ocean ice pack.
October 13 » First known conversation in modern Hebrew by Eliezer Ben-Yehuda and friends.
November 19 » A meteorite lands near the village of Grossliebenthal, southwest of Odessa, Ukraine.
Day of death February 17, 1961
The temperature on February 17, 1961 was between 2.6 °C and 16.4 °C and averaged 7.8 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. There was 7.7 hours of sunshine (77%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east. Source: KNMI
March 2 » John F. Kennedy announces the creation of the Peace Corps in a nationally televised broadcast.
March 24 » Quebec Board of the French Language is established.
May 21 » American civil rights movement: Alabama Governor John Malcolm Patterson declares martial law in an attempt to restore order after race riots break out.
September 18 » CONCACAF is established as the governing body for association football in North America, Central America and the Caribbean.
October 27 » NASA tests the first Saturn I rocket in Mission Saturn-Apollo 1.
October 30 » The Soviet Union detonates the Tsar Bomba, the most powerful explosive device ever detonated.
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