The temperature on May 13, 1879 was about 6.8 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the northwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 92%. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from November 3, 1877 to August 20, 1879 the cabinet Kappeijne van de Coppello, with Mr. J. Kappeijne van de Coppello (liberaal) as prime minister.
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.
March 11 » Shō Tai formally abdicated his position of King of Ryūkyū, under orders from Tokyo, ending the Ryukyu Kingdom.
May 21 » War of the Pacific: Two Chilean ships blocking the harbor of Iquique (then belonging to Peru) battle two Peruvian vessels in the Battle of Iquique.
May 26 » Russia and the United Kingdom sign the Treaty of Gandamak establishing an Afghan state.
June 1 » Napoléon Eugène, the last dynastic Bonaparte, is killed in the Anglo-Zulu War.
July 1 » Charles Taze Russell publishes the first edition of the religious magazine The Watchtower.
September 3 » Siege of the British Residency in Kabul: British envoy Sir Louis Cavagnari and 72 men of the Guides are massacred by Afghan troops while defending the British Residency in Kabul. Their heroism and loyalty became famous and revered throughout the British Empire.
Day of marriage May 2, 1904
The temperature on May 2, 1904 was between 8.6 °C and 11.9 °C and averaged 10.2 °C. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
February 8 » Aceh War: Dutch Colonial Army's Marechaussee regiment led by General G.C.E. van Daalen launch military campaign to capture Gayo Highland, Alas Highland, and Batak Highland in Dutch East Indies' Northern Sumatra region, which ends with genocide to Acehnese and Bataks people.
February 22 » The United Kingdom sells a meteorological station on the South Orkney Islands to Argentina; the islands are subsequently claimed by the United Kingdom in 1908.
February 28 » S.L. Benfica is founded in Portugal.
April 30 » The Louisiana Purchase Exposition World's Fair opens in St. Louis, Missouri.
July 21 » Louis Rigolly, a Frenchman, becomes the first man to break the 100mph (161km/h) barrier on land. He drove a 15-liter Gobron-Brillié in Ostend, Belgium.
August 10 » Russo-Japanese War: The Battle of the Yellow Sea between the Russian and Japanese battleship fleets takes place.
Day of death January 20, 1960
The temperature on January 20, 1960 was between 0.8 °C and 4.6 °C and averaged 2.8 °C. There was 1.8 mm of rain during 1.4 hours. There was 2.0 hours of sunshine (24%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. Source: KNMI
January 6 » National Airlines Flight 2511 is destroyed in mid-air by a bomb, while en route from New York City to Miami.
February 13 » Black college students stage the first of the Nashville sit-ins at three lunch counters in Nashville, Tennessee.
May 6 » More than 20million viewers watch the first televised royal wedding when Princess Margaret marries Anthony Armstrong-Jones at Westminster Abbey.
August 16 » Cyprus gains its independence from the United Kingdom.
September 22 » The Sudanese Republic is renamed Mali after the withdrawal of Senegal from the Mali Federation.
November 2 » Penguin Books is found not guilty of obscenity in the trial R v Penguin Books Ltd, the Lady Chatterley's Lover case.
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