The temperature on July 9, 1882 was about 13.0 °C. There was 2 mm of rain. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 88%. 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.
April 3 » American Old West: Robert Ford kills Jesse James.
May 20 » The Triple Alliance between the German Empire, Austria-Hungary and the Kingdom of Italy is formed.
July 10 » War of the Pacific: Chile suffers its last military defeat in the Battle of La Concepción when a garrison of 77 men is annihilated by a 1,300-strong Peruvian force, many of them armed with spears.
July 26 » Premiere of Richard Wagner's opera Parsifal at Bayreuth.
September 18 » The Pacific Stock Exchange opens.
December 6 » Transit of Venus, second and last of the 19th century.
Day of marriage May 18, 1901
The temperature on May 18, 1901 was between 2.4 °C and 13.9 °C and averaged 8.2 °C. There was 6.4 hours of sunshine (40%). Source: KNMI
January 22 » Edward VII is proclaimed King after the death of his mother, Queen Victoria.
April 25 » New York becomes the first U.S. state to require automobile license plates.
June 17 » The College Board introduces its first standardized test, the forerunner to the SAT.
November 8 » Gospel riots: Bloody clashes take place in Athens following the translation of the Gospels into demotic Greek.
November 13 » The 1901 Caister lifeboat disaster.
December 12 » Guglielmo Marconi receives the first transatlantic radio signal (the letter "S" [***] in Morse Code), at Signal Hill in St John's, Newfoundland.
Day of death September 2, 1962
The temperature on September 2, 1962 was between 6.2 °C and 22.9 °C and averaged 14.5 °C. There was 10.4 hours of sunshine (77%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the ??. Source: KNMI
January 15 » The Derveni papyrus, Europe's oldest surviving manuscript dating to 340 BC, is found in northern Greece.
May 22 » Continental Airlines Flight 11 crashes after bombs explode on board.
May 24 » Project Mercury: American astronaut Scott Carpenter orbits the Earth three times in the Aurora 7 space capsule.
June 14 » The European Space Research Organisation is established in Paris – later becoming the European Space Agency.
July 11 » Project Apollo: At a press conference, NASA announces lunar orbit rendezvous as the means to land astronauts on the Moon, and return them to Earth.
August 20 » The NS Savannah, the world's first nuclear-powered civilian ship, embarks on its maiden voyage.
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