The temperature on January 31, 1879 was about -3.3 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the northeast. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 96%. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from November 3, 1877 to August 20, 1879 the cabinet Kappeijne van de Coppello, with Mr. J. Kappeijne van de Coppello (liberaal) as prime minister.
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 8 » Sandford Fleming first proposes adoption of Universal Standard Time at a meeting of the Royal Canadian Institute.
July 1 » Charles Taze Russell publishes the first edition of the religious magazine The Watchtower.
September 3 » Siege of the British Residency in Kabul: British envoy Sir Louis Cavagnari and 72 men of the Guides are massacred by Afghan troops while defending the British Residency in Kabul. Their heroism and loyalty became famous and revered throughout the British Empire.
October 15 » The Segura river in southeastern Spain floods, killing 1077 people.
December 21 » World premiere of Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House at the Royal Theatre in Copenhagen, Denmark.
December 31 » Thomas Edison demonstrates incandescent lighting to the public for the first time, in Menlo Park, New Jersey.
Day of marriage October 20, 1900
The temperature on October 20, 1900 was about 5.2 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 94%. Source: KNMI
February 7 » Second Boer War: British troops fail in their third attempt to lift the Siege of Ladysmith.
April 14 » The Exposition Universelle begins.
April 30 » Hawaii becomes a territory of the United States, with Sanford B. Dole as governor.
June 14 » The second German Naval Law calls for the Imperial German Navy to be doubled in size, resulting in an Anglo-German naval arms race.
June 17 » Boxer Rebellion: Western Allied and Japanese forces capture the Taku Forts in Tianjin, China.
October 9 » The Cook Islands become a territory of the United Kingdom.
Day of death April 10, 1961
The temperature on April 10, 1961 was between 4.7 °C and 16.1 °C and averaged 9.9 °C. There was 11.2 hours of sunshine (83%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
April 12 » Cold War: Space Race: The Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becomes the first human to travel into outer space and perform the first manned orbital flight, Vostok 1.
May 28 » Peter Benenson's article The Forgotten Prisoners is published in several internationally read newspapers. This will later be thought of as the founding of the human rights organization Amnesty International.
July 21 » Mercury program: Mercury-Redstone 4 Mission: Gus Grissom piloting Liberty Bell 7 becomes the second American to go into space (in a suborbital mission).
September 1 » The Eritrean War of Independence officially begins with the shooting of Ethiopian police by Hamid Idris Awate.
September 10 » In the Italian Grand Prix, a crash causes the death of German Formula One driver Wolfgang von Trips and 13 spectators who are hit by his Ferrari, the deadliest accident in F1 history.
September 12 » The African and Malagasy Union is founded.
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