The temperature on April 5, 1881 was about 2.6 °C. The air pressure was 7 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the east-northeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 57%. 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.
May 10 » Carol I is crowned the King of the Romanian Kingdom.
July 1 » General Order 70, the culmination of the Cardwell and Childers reforms of the British Army, comes into effect.
November 7 » Mapuche rebels attack the Chilean settlement of Nueva Imperial, as defenders fled to the hills and the settlement was effectively destroyed.
November 19 » A meteorite lands near the village of Grossliebenthal, southwest of Odessa, Ukraine.
Day of marriage February 8, 1927
The temperature on February 8, 1927 was between -4.2 °C and 1.3 °C and averaged -1.8 °C. There was 6.0 hours of sunshine (63%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. Source: KNMI
January 27 » Ibn Saud takes the title of King of Nejd.
February 23 » U.S. President Calvin Coolidge signs a bill by Congress establishing the Federal Radio Commission (later replaced by the Federal Communications Commission) which was to regulate the use of radio frequencies in the United States.
April 12 » Rocksprings, Texas was hit by an F5 tornado that destroyed 235 of the 247 buildings in the town and killed 72 townspeople and injured 205; third deadliest tornado in Texas history.
May 5 » To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf is first published.
August 27 » Five Canadian women file a petition to the Supreme Court of Canada, asking, "Does the word 'Persons' in Section 24 of the British North America Act, 1867, include female persons?"
December 17 » Indian revolutionary Rajendra Lahiri is hanged in Gonda jail, Uttar Pradesh, India, two days before the scheduled date.
Day of death August 9, 1959
The temperature on August 9, 1959 was between 16.3 °C and 23.7 °C and averaged 19.9 °C. There was 4.7 mm of rain during 1.1 hours. There was 1.2 hours of sunshine (8%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
January 4 » Luna 1 becomes the first spacecraft to reach the vicinity of the Moon.
February 2 » Nine experienced ski hikers in the northern Ural Mountains in the Soviet Union die under mysterious circumstances.
February 3 » Rock and roll musicians Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J. P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson are killed in a plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa.
July 1 » Specific values for the international yard, avoirdupois pound and derived units (e.g. inch, mile and ounce) are adopted after agreement between the US, the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth countries.
September 15 » Nikita Khrushchev becomes the first Soviet leader to visit the United States.
September 27 » Typhoon Vera kills nearly 5,000 people in Japan.
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