The temperature on October 23, 1880 was about 1.3 °C. There was 2 mm of rain. The air pressure was 14 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the east-northeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 86%. 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.
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).
June 28 » Australian bushranger Ned Kelly is captured at Glenrowan.
June 29 » France annexes Tahiti, renaming the independent Kingdom of Tahiti as "Etablissements de français de l'Océanie".
August 14 » Construction of Cologne Cathedral, the most famous landmark in Cologne, Germany, is completed.
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 March 24, 1962
The temperature on March 24, 1962 was between -1.3 °C and 5.6 °C and averaged 1.9 °C. There was 8.7 hours of sunshine (70%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. Source: KNMI
January 3 » Pope John XXIII excommunicates Fidel Castro.
August 15 » James Joseph Dresnok defects to North Korea after running across the Korean Demilitarized Zone. Dresnok died in 2016.
September 8 » Last run of the famous Pines Express over the Somerset and Dorset Railway line (UK) fittingly using the last steam locomotive built by British Railways, BR Standard Class 9F 92220 Evening Star.
September 20 » James Meredith, an African American, is temporarily barred from entering the University of Mississippi.
October 25 » Cuban Missile Crisis: Adlai Stevenson shows the United Nations Security Council reconnaissance photographs of Soviet ballistic missiles in Cuba.
November 24 » The influential British satirical television programme That Was the Week That Was is first broadcast.
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