The temperature on July 26, 1881 was about 13.5 °C. There was 5 mm of rain. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the west-northwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 94%. 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.
February 27 » First Boer War: The Battle of Majuba Hill takes place.
March 13 » Alexander II of Russia is assassinated.
May 12 » In North Africa, Tunisia becomes a French protectorate.
November 3 » The Mapuche uprising of 1881 begins in Chile.
November 7 » Mapuche rebels attack the Chilean settlement of Nueva Imperial, as defenders fled to the hills and the settlement was effectively destroyed.
November 9 » Mapuche rebels attack the fortified Chilean settlement of Temuco.
Day of death May 5, 1956
The temperature on May 5, 1956 was between 5.2 °C and 21.5 °C and averaged 14.5 °C. There was 11.4 hours of sunshine (75%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
May 20 » In Operation Redwing, the first United States airborne hydrogen bomb is dropped over Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean.
June 30 » A TWA Super Constellation and a United Airlines DC-7 collide above the Grand Canyon in Arizona and crash, killing all 128 on board both airliners.
September 13 » The IBM 305 RAMAC is introduced, the first commercial computer to use disk storage.
October 15 » FORTRAN, the first modern computer language, is first shared with the coding community.
December 4 » The Million Dollar Quartet (Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, and Johnny Cash) get together at Sun Studio for the first and last time.
December 9 » Trans-Canada Air Lines Flight 810, a Canadair North Star, crashes near Hope, British Columbia, Canada, killing all 62 people on board.
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