The temperature on March 21, 1881 was about -0.6 °C. There was 0.7 mm of rain. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the north-northeast. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 87%. 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 11 » Spelman College is founded in Atlanta, Georgia as the Atlanta Baptist Female Seminary, an institute of higher education for African-American women.
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.
June 14 » The White Rajahs territories become the British protectorate of Sarawak.
July 2 » Charles J. Guiteau shoots and fatally wounds U.S. President James A. Garfield (who will die of complications from his wounds on September 19).
October 13 » First known conversation in modern Hebrew by Eliezer Ben-Yehuda and friends.
Day of marriage May 6, 1911
The temperature on May 6, 1911 was between 3.3 °C and 14.0 °C and averaged 8.7 °C. There was 12.1 hours of sunshine (80%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north. Source: KNMI
January 3 » A gun battle in the East End of London left two dead and sparked a political row over the involvement of then-Home Secretary Winston Churchill.
June 28 » The Nakhla meteorite, the first one to suggest signs of aqueous processes on Mars, falls to Earth, landing in Egypt.
August 21 » The Mona Lisa is stolen by Vincenzo Peruggia, a Louvre employee.
September 20 » The White Star Line's RMSOlympic collides with the British warship HMSHawke.
September 23 » Pilot Earle Ovington makes the first official airmail delivery in America under the authority of the United States Post Office Department
October 9 » An accidental bomb explosion triggers the Wuchang Uprising against the Chinese monarchy.
Day of death April 9, 1958
The temperature on April 9, 1958 was between -1.5 °C and 6.1 °C and averaged 1.9 °C. There was 1.4 mm of rain during 1.2 hours. There was 0.8 hours of sunshine (6%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. Source: KNMI
January 31 » Cold War: Space Race: The first successful American satellite detects the Van Allen radiation belt.
February 21 » The CND symbol, aka peace symbol, commissioned by the Direct Action Committee in protest against the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment, is designed and completed by Gerald Holtom.
March 24 » Rock 'n' roll teen idol Elvis Presley is drafted in the U.S. Army.
May 27 » First flight of the McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II.
June 17 » The Ironworkers Memorial Second Narrows Crossing, in the process of being built to connect Vancouver and North Vancouver (Canada), collapses into the Burrard Inlet killing 18 ironworkers and injuring others.
July 26 » Explorer program: Explorer 4 is launched.
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