The temperature on June 21, 1883 was about 12.3 °C. There was 5 mm of rain. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 89%. 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.
In The Netherlands , there was from April 23, 1884 to April 21, 1888 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief) as prime minister.
July 10 » War of the Pacific: Chileans led by Alejandro Gorostiaga defeat Andrés Avelino Cáceres's Peruvuan army at the Battle of Huamachuco, hastening the end of the war.
August 25 » France and Viet Nam sign the Treaty of Huế, recognizing a French protectorate over Annam and Tonkin.
October 4 » First run of the Orient Express.
November 18 » American and Canadian railroads institute five standard continental time zones, ending the confusion of thousands of local times.
December 16 » Tonkin Campaign: French forces capture the Sơn Tây citadel.
December 21 » The Royal Canadian Dragoons and The Royal Canadian Regiment, the first Permanent Force cavalry and infantry regiments of the Canadian Army, are formed.
Day of marriage June 4, 1910
The temperature on June 4, 1910 was between 10.2 °C and 22.8 °C and averaged 17.0 °C. There was 3.6 mm of rain. There was 6.8 hours of sunshine (41%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east. Source: KNMI
January 13 » The first public radio broadcast takes place; a live performance of the operas Cavalleria rusticana and Pagliacci are sent out over the airwaves from the Metropolitan Opera House in New York.
July 24 » The Ottoman Empire captures the city of Shkodër, putting down the Albanian Revolt of 1910.
October 1 » A large bomb destroys the Los Angeles Times building, killing 21.
October 20 » The hull of the RMSOlympic, sister-ship to the ill-fated RMS Titanic, is launched from the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast.
November 14 » Aviator Eugene Burton Ely performs the first takeoff from a ship in Hampton Roads, Virginia, taking off from a makeshift deck on the USS Birmingham in a Curtiss pusher.
December 21 » An underground explosion at the Hulton Bank Colliery No. 3 Pit in Over Hulton, Westhoughton, England, kills 344 miners.
Day of death June 2, 1953
The temperature on June 2, 1953 was between 3.9 °C and 9.2 °C and averaged 6.8 °C. There was 16.9 mm of rain during 10.4 hours. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
February 11 » Cold War: U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower denies all appeals for clemency for Julius and Ethel Rosenberg.
June 17 » Cold War: East Germany Workers Uprising: In East Germany, the Soviet Union orders a division of troops into East Berlin to quell a rebellion.
November 17 » The remaining human inhabitants of the Blasket Islands, Kerry, Ireland, are evacuated to the mainland.
November 21 » The Natural History Museum, London announces that the "Piltdown Man" skull, initially believed to be one of the most important fossilized hominid skulls ever found, is a hoax.
November 23 » Pilot Felix Moncla and Lieutenant Robert Wilson disappear while in pursuit of a mysterious craft over Lake Superior.
December 24 » Tangiwai disaster: In New Zealand's North Island, at Tangiwai, a railway bridge is damaged by a lahar and collapses beneath a passenger train, killing 151 people.
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