The temperature on November 4, 1881 was about 12.3 °C. There was 1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 3 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the south. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 100%. 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.
January 25 » Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell form the Oriental Telephone Company.
February 16 » The Canadian Pacific Railway is incorporated by Act of Parliament at Ottawa (44th Vic., c.1).
February 27 » First Boer War: The Battle of Majuba Hill takes place.
March 1 » The first Minnesota State Capitol burns down.
June 13 » The USS Jeannette is crushed in an Arctic Ocean ice pack.
September 19 » U.S. President James A. Garfield dies of wounds suffered in a July 2 shooting. Vice President Chester A. Arthur becomes President upon Garfield's death.
Day of marriage July 14, 1906
The temperature on July 14, 1906 was between 8.7 °C and 18.8 °C and averaged 14.6 °C. There was 4.0 hours of sunshine (24%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from August 17, 1905 to February 11, 1908 the cabinet De Meester, with Mr. Th. de Meester (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
March 31 » The Intercollegiate Athletic Association of the United States (later the National Collegiate Athletic Association) is established to set rules for college sports in the United States.
April 7 » Mount Vesuvius erupts and devastates Naples.
June 25 » Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania millionaire Harry Thaw shoots and kills prominent architect Stanford White.
July 11 » Murder of Grace Brown by Chester Gillette in the United States, inspiration for Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy.
September 12 » The Newport Transporter Bridge is opened in Newport, South Wales by Viscount Tredegar.
September 20 » The Cunard Line's RMSMauretania is launched at Newcastle upon Tyne, England.
Day of death June 18, 1952
The temperature on June 18, 1952 was between 9.8 °C and 20.2 °C and averaged 15.2 °C. There was 10.2 hours of sunshine (61%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
February 6 » Elizabeth II becomes Queen of the United Kingdom and her other Realms and Territories and Head of the Commonwealth upon the death of her father, George VI. At the exact moment of succession, she was in a tree house at the Treetops Hotel in Kenya.
June 17 » Guatemala passes Decree 900, ordering the redistribution of uncultivated land.
June 26 » The Pan-Malayan Labour Party is founded in Malaya, as a union of statewide labour parties.
July 7 » The ocean liner SSUnited States passes Bishop Rock on her maiden voyage, breaking the transatlantic speed record to become the fastest passenger ship in the world.
October 20 » The Governor of Kenya declares a state of emergency and begins arresting hundreds of suspected leaders of the Mau Mau Uprising.
November 1 » Nuclear weapons testing: The United States successfully detonates Ivy Mike, the first thermonuclear device, at the Eniwetok atoll. The explosion had a yield of ten megatons TNT equivalent.
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