The temperature on August 16, 1881 was about 13.1 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 94%. 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.
April 14 » The Four Dead in Five Seconds Gunfight is fought in El Paso, Texas.
April 16 » In Dodge City, Kansas, Bat Masterson fights his last gun battle.
June 13 » The USS Jeannette is crushed in an Arctic Ocean ice pack.
September 19 » U.S. President James A. Garfield dies of wounds suffered in a July 2 shooting. Vice President Chester A. Arthur becomes President upon Garfield's death.
October 13 » First known conversation in modern Hebrew by Eliezer Ben-Yehuda and friends.
November 7 » Mapuche rebels attack the Chilean settlement of Nueva Imperial, as defenders fled to the hills and the settlement was effectively destroyed.
Day of marriage August 8, 1900
The temperature on August 8, 1900 was about 19.1 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 63%. Source: KNMI
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 18 » The United Kingdom proclaims a protectorate over Tonga.
June 14 » Hawaii becomes a United States territory.
August 16 » The Battle of Elands River during the Second Boer War ends after a 13-day siege is lifted by the British. The battle had begun when a force of between 2,000 and 3,000 Boers had surrounded a force of 500 Australians, Rhodesians, Canadians and British soldiers at a supply dump at Brakfontein Drift.
November 7 » Second Boer War: Battle of Leliefontein, a battle during which the Royal Canadian Dragoons win three Victoria Crosses.
December 19 » Hopetoun Blunder: The first Governor-General of Australia John Hope, 7th Earl of Hopetoun, appoints Sir William Lyne premier of the new state of New South Wales, but he is unable to persuade other colonial politicians to join his government and is forced to resign.
Day of death April 11, 1930
The temperature on April 11, 1930 was between 1.6 °C and 16.3 °C and averaged 8.5 °C. There was 3.8 hours of sunshine (28%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from August 10, 1929 to May 26, 1933 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck III, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
February 18 » Elm Farm Ollie becomes the first cow to fly in a fixed-wing aircraft and also the first cow to be milked in an aircraft.
April 18 » The British Broadcasting Corporation announced that "there is no news" in their evening report.
May 7 » The 7.1 Mw Salmas earthquake shakes northwestern Iran and southeastern Turkey with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent). Up to three-thousand people were killed.
June 16 » Sovnarkom establishes decree time in the USSR.
August 16 » The first color sound cartoon, Fiddlesticks, is released by Ub Iwerks.
December 29 » Sir Muhammad Iqbal's presidential address in Allahabad introduces the two-nation theory and outlines a vision for the creation of Pakistan.
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