The temperature on August 3, 1880 was about 16.6 °C. There was 6 mm of rain. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the north-northwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 78%. 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.
February 13 » Thomas Edison observes Thermionic emission.
May 11 » Seven people are killed in the Mussel Slough Tragedy, a gun battle in California.
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.
June 28 » Australian bushranger Ned Kelly is captured at Glenrowan.
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 October 20, 1957
The temperature on October 20, 1957 was between 2.4 °C and 12.1 °C and averaged 8.0 °C. There was 3.8 mm of rain during 0.8 hours. There was 3.3 hours of sunshine (32%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
January 5 » In a speech given to the United States Congress, United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower announces the establishment of what will later be called the Eisenhower Doctrine.
January 14 » Kripalu Maharaj was named fifth Jagadguru (world teacher) after giving seven days of speeches before 500 Hindu scholars.
February 18 » Walter James Bolton becomes the last person legally executed in New Zealand.
March 25 » United States Customs seizes copies of Allen Ginsberg's poem "Howl" on obscenity grounds.
September 29 » The Kyshtym disaster is the third-worst nuclear accident ever recorded.
October 10 » The Windscale fire results in Britain's worst nuclear accident.
When copying data from this family tree, please include a reference to the origin: Leenen, "Stamboom familie Leenen te Sint-Truiden België", database, Genealogy Online (https://www.genealogieonline.nl/stamboom-leenen-sint-truiden-belgie/I87145.php : accessed June 21, 2024), "Maria Catherina Bollen (Geboren als Smets) (1880-1957)".
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