The temperature on August 29, 1880 was about 15.5 °C. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the east. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 63%. 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.
June 7 » War of the Pacific: The Battle of Arica, the assault and capture of Morro de Arica (Arica Cape), ends the Campaña del Desierto (Desert Campaign).
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.
Day of death November 21, 1961
The temperature on November 21, 1961 was between -3.1 °C and 4.6 °C and averaged 0.3 °C. There was 7.2 hours of sunshine (84%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. Source: KNMI
February 27 » The first congress of the Spanish Trade Union Organisation is inaugurated.
March 9 » Sputnik 9 successfully launches, carrying a dog and a human dummy, and demonstrating that the Soviet Union was ready to begin human spaceflight.
May 1 » The Prime Minister of Cuba, Fidel Castro, proclaims Cuba a socialist nation and abolishes elections.
June 16 » While on tour with the Kirov Ballet in Paris, Rudolf Nureyev defects from the Soviet Union.
October 17 » Directed by their chief Maurice Papon, Paris police massacre scores of Algerian protesters.
November 11 » Thirteen Italian Air Force servicemen, deployed to the Congo as a part of the UN peacekeeping force, are massacred by a mob in Kindu.
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