The temperature on October 28, 1880 was about 11.8 °C. There was 3 mm of rain. The air pressure was 10 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the southwest. The airpressure was 74 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 72%. 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 27 » Thomas Edison receives a patent for his incandescent lamp.
February 13 » Thomas Edison observes Thermionic emission.
May 13 » In Menlo Park, New Jersey, Thomas Edison performs the first test of his electric railway.
June 24 » First performance of O Canada at the Congrès national des Canadiens-Français. The song would later become the national anthem of Canada.
September 1 » The army of Mohammad Ayub Khan is routed by the British at the Battle of Kandahar, ending the Second Anglo-Afghan War.
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.
Day of death May 24, 1970
The temperature on May 24, 1970 was between 5.4 °C and 19.4 °C and averaged 13.7 °C. There was 6.8 hours of sunshine (42%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
March 6 » An explosion at the Weather Underground safe house in Greenwich Village kills three.
April 11 » Apollo 13 is launched.
April 28 » Vietnam War: U.S. President Richard Nixon formally authorizes American combat troops to take part in the Cambodian campaign.
May 1 » Vietnam War: Protests erupt following the announcement by Richard Nixon that the U.S. and South Vietnamese forces would attack Vietnamese communists in a Cambodian Campaign.
September 1 » Palestinian guerrillas attack the motorcade of King Hussein of Jordan in a failed assassination attempt.
September 6 » Two passenger jets bound from Europe to New York are simultaneously hijacked by Palestinian terrorist members of the PFLP and taken to Dawson's Field, Jordan.
When copying data from this family tree, please include a reference to the origin: Irene Jolanda van der Meulen, "Complete stambomen van der Meulen, Visser, Alkema, Zondervan, van Gorkum, de Vries.", database, Genealogy Online (https://www.genealogieonline.nl/stamboom-gertje-de-vries/I31366.php : accessed June 18, 2024), "Maria Adriana Hees (1880-1970)".
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