The temperature on January 8, 1881 was about 2.3 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the north-northwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 93%. 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 16 » The Canadian Pacific Railway is incorporated by Act of Parliament at Ottawa (44th Vic., c.1).
March 1 » The first Minnesota State Capitol burns down.
May 21 » The American Red Cross is established by Clara Barton in Washington, D.C.
June 14 » The White Rajahs territories become the British protectorate of Sarawak.
October 13 » First known conversation in modern Hebrew by Eliezer Ben-Yehuda and friends.
November 19 » A meteorite lands near the village of Grossliebenthal, southwest of Odessa, Ukraine.
Day of marriage October 22, 1952
The temperature on October 22, 1952 was between 4.1 °C and 11.5 °C and averaged 7.5 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 0.6 hours. There was 2.2 hours of sunshine (21%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east. Source: KNMI
April 8 » U.S. President Harry Truman calls for the seizure of all domestic steel mills in an attempt to prevent the 1952 steel strike.
April 28 » The Sino-Japanese Peace Treaty (Treaty of Taipei) is signed in Taipei, Taiwan between Japan and the Republic of China to officially end the Second Sino-Japanese War.
May 13 » The Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Parliament of India, holds its first sitting.
October 3 » The United Kingdom successfully tests a nuclear weapon to become the world's third nuclear power.
December 20 » A United States Air Force C-124 crashes and burns in Moses Lake, Washington killing 87.
December 24 » First flight of Britain's Handley Page Victor strategic bomber.
Day of death May 19, 1957
The temperature on May 19, 1957 was between 8.2 °C and 15.8 °C and averaged 11.9 °C. There was 1.6 mm of rain during 1.0 hours. There was 2.7 hours of sunshine (17%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. Source: KNMI
February 18 » Kenyan rebel leader Dedan Kimathi is executed by the British colonial government.
May 15 » At Malden Island in the Pacific Ocean, Britain tests its first hydrogen bomb in Operation Grapple.
June 24 » In Roth v. United States, the U.S. Supreme Court rules that obscenity is not protected by the First Amendment.
July 6 » John Lennon and Paul McCartney meet for the first time, as teenagers at Woolton Fete, three years before forming the Beatles.
November 1 » The Mackinac Bridge, the world's longest suspension bridge between anchorages at the time, opens to traffic connecting Michigan's upper and lower peninsulas.
December 17 » The United States successfully launches the first Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile at Cape Canaveral, Florida.
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