The temperature on October 10, 1880 was about 9.3 °C. There was 11 mm of rain. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the east-northeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 89%. 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.
May 13 » In Menlo Park, New Jersey, Thomas Edison performs the first test of his electric railway.
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.
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.
November 11 » Australian bushranger Ned Kelly is hanged at Melbourne Gaol.
December 16 » Outbreak of the First Boer War between the Boer South African Republic and the British Empire.
Day of death February 24, 1966
The temperature on February 24, 1966 was between 4.7 °C and 10.2 °C and averaged 7.8 °C. There was 0.8 mm of rain during 1.5 hours. There was 2.9 hours of sunshine (28%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
January 13 » Robert C. Weaver becomes the first African American Cabinet member when he is appointed United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.
February 23 » In Syria, Ba'ath Party member Salah Jadid leads an intra-party military coup that replaces the previous government of General Amin al-Hafiz, also a Baathist.
May 6 » Myra Hindley and Ian Brady are sentenced to life imprisonment for the Moors murders in England.
July 24 » Michael Pelkey makes the first BASE jump from El Capitan along with Brian Schubert. Both came out with broken bones. BASE jumping has now been banned from El Cap.
September 9 » The National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act is signed into law by U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson.
November 8 » U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs into law an antitrust exemption allowing the National Football League to merge with the upstart American Football League.
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