The temperature on March 30, 1881 was about 4.6 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the north-northwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 71%. 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 24 » China and Russia sign the Sino-Russian Ili Treaty.
February 27 » First Boer War: The Battle of Majuba Hill takes place.
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.
June 29 » In Sudan, Muhammad Ahmad declares himself to be the Mahdi, the messianic redeemer of Islam.
October 13 » First known conversation in modern Hebrew by Eliezer Ben-Yehuda and friends.
Day of marriage September 1, 1911
The temperature on September 1, 1911 was between 9.7 °C and 23.7 °C and averaged 16.4 °C. There was 10.4 hours of sunshine (76%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
January 3 » A magnitude 7.7 earthquake destroys the city of Almaty in Russian Turkestan.
May 15 » More than 300 Chinese immigrants are killed in the Torreón massacre when the forces of the Mexican Revolution led by Emilio Madero take the city of Torreón from the Federales.
July 1 » Germany despatches the gunship SMSPanther to Morocco, sparking the Agadir Crisis.
September 7 » French poet Guillaume Apollinaire is arrested and put in jail on suspicion of stealing the Mona Lisa from the Louvre museum.
September 18 » Russian Premier Pyotr Stolypin is shot at the Kiev Opera House.
November 1 » World's first combat aerial bombing mission takes place in Libya during the Italo-Turkish War. Second Lieutenant Giulio Gavotti of Italy drops several small bombs.
Day of death July 13, 1969
The temperature on July 13, 1969 was between 12.1 °C and 23.3 °C and averaged 17.4 °C. There was 10.1 hours of sunshine (62%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest. Source: KNMI
January 16 » Soviet spacecraft Soyuz 4 and Soyuz 5 perform the first-ever docking of manned spacecraft in orbit, the first-ever transfer of crew from one space vehicle to another, and the only time such a transfer was accomplished with a space walk.
April 3 » Vietnam War: United States Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird announces that the United States will start to "Vietnamize" the war effort.
May 20 » The Battle of Hamburger Hill in Vietnam ends.
July 16 » Apollo program: Apollo 11, the first mission to land astronauts on the Moon, is launched from the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Kennedy, Florida.
July 25 » Vietnam War: U.S. President Richard Nixon declares the Nixon Doctrine, stating that the United States now expects its Asian allies to take care of their own military defense. This is the start of the "Vietnamization" of the war.
November 19 » Apollo program: Apollo 12 astronauts Pete Conrad and Alan Bean land at Oceanus Procellarum (the "Ocean of Storms") and become the third and fourth humans to walk on the Moon.
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