The temperature on June 21, 1881 was about 16.9 °C. There was 13 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.
January 25 » Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell form the Oriental Telephone Company.
February 27 » First Boer War: The Battle of Majuba Hill takes place.
April 14 » The Four Dead in Five Seconds Gunfight is fought in El Paso, Texas.
June 14 » The White Rajahs territories become the British protectorate of Sarawak.
July 1 » General Order 70, the culmination of the Cardwell and Childers reforms of the British Army, comes into effect.
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.
Day of marriage April 8, 1904
The temperature on April 8, 1904 was between 4.4 °C and 10.8 °C and averaged 7.9 °C. There was 2.0 hours of sunshine (15%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
April 8 » Longacre Square in Midtown Manhattan is renamed Times Square after The New York Times.
April 8 » The French Third Republic and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland sign the Entente cordiale.
May 15 » Russo-Japanese War: The Russian minelayer Amur lays a minefield about 15 miles off Port Arthur and sinks Japan's battleships Hatsuse, 15,000 tons, with 496 crew and Yashima.
June 16 » Eugen Schauman assassinates Nikolay Bobrikov, Governor-General of Finland.
June 16 » Irish author James Joyce begins a relationship with Nora Barnacle and subsequently uses the date to set the actions for his novel Ulysses; this date is now traditionally called "Bloomsday".
November 16 » English engineer John Ambrose Fleming receives a patent for the thermionic valve (vacuum tube).
Day of death May 13, 1956
The temperature on May 13, 1956 was between 5.3 °C and 18.0 °C and averaged 11.4 °C. There was 9.2 hours of sunshine (59%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. Source: KNMI
January 26 » Soviet Union cedes Porkkala back to Finland.
April 30 » Former Vice President and Democratic Senator Alben Barkley dies during a speech in Virginia.
June 28 » in Poznań, workers from HCP factory go to the streets, sparking one of the first major protests against communist government both in Poland and Europe.
October 28 » Elvis Presley receives a polio vaccination on national TV.
November 1 » Hungarian Revolution: Imre Nagy announces Hungary's neutrality and withdrawal from the Warsaw Pact. Soviet troops begin to re-enter Hungary, contrary to assurances by the Soviet government. János Kádár and Ferenc Münnich secretly defect to the Soviets.
December 9 » Trans-Canada Air Lines Flight 810, a Canadair North Star, crashes near Hope, British Columbia, Canada, killing all 62 people on board.
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