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.
May 11 » Seven people are killed in the Mussel Slough Tragedy, a gun battle in California.
June 24 » First performance of O Canada at the Congrès national des Canadiens-Français. The song would later become the national anthem of Canada.
July 27 » Second Anglo-Afghan War: Battle of Maiwand: Afghan forces led by Mohammad Ayub Khan defeat the British Army in battle near Maiwand, Afghanistan.
August 14 » Construction of Cologne Cathedral, the most famous landmark in Cologne, Germany, is completed.
September 1 » The army of Mohammad Ayub Khan is routed by the British at the Battle of Kandahar, ending the Second Anglo-Afghan War.
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 February 26, 1963
The temperature on February 26, 1963 was between -9.4 °C and 2.3 °C and averaged -3.8 °C. There was 9.2 hours of sunshine (86%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. Source: KNMI
April 11 » Pope John XXIII issues Pacem in terris, the first encyclical addressed to all Christians instead of only Catholics, and which described the conditions for world peace in human terms.
May 11 » Racist bombings in Birmingham, Alabama, disrupt nonviolence in the Birmingham campaign and precipitate a crisis involving federal troops.
June 21 » Cardinal Giovanni Battista Montini is elected as Pope Paul VI.
June 24 » The United Kingdom grants Zanzibar internal self-government.
July 26 » An earthquake in Skopje, Yugoslavia (present-day North Macedonia) leaves 1,100 dead.
November 25 » President John F. Kennedy is buried at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington County, Virginia, across the Potomac River from Washington, D.C.; his assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, is buried on the same day in Fort Worth, Texas.
When copying data from this family tree, please include a reference to the origin: Nicole Spaans, "Family tree Spaans, Blom, Vieveen, Sebel, van Heijningen, de Voogd, van der Geest", database, Genealogy Online (https://www.genealogieonline.nl/stamboom-spaans-blom-vieveen-sebel-van-heijningen-de-voogd-van-der-geest/I500313.php : accessed September 24, 2024), "Apolonia Maria (Plonia) Bontje (1880-1963)".
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