The temperature on March 31, 1881 was about 2.2 °C. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the east-northeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 61%. 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.
January 1 » Nigeria becomes a British protectorate.
August 10 » The U.S. Steel recognition strike by the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers begins.
September 17 » Second Boer War: Boers capture a squadron of the 17th Lancers at the Battle of Elands River.
October 24 » Annie Edson Taylor becomes the first person to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel.
November 8 » Gospel riots: Bloody clashes take place in Athens following the translation of the Gospels into demotic Greek.
December 3 » In a State of the Union message, U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt delivers a 20,000-word speech to the House of Representatives asking Congress to curb the power of trusts "within reasonable limits".
Day of death May 3, 1935
The temperature on May 3, 1935 was between 1.5 °C and 17.4 °C and averaged 9.9 °C. There was 8.0 hours of sunshine (53%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. Source: KNMI
February 12 » USSMacon, one of the two largest helium-filled airships ever created, crashes into the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California and sinks.
February 28 » DuPont scientist Wallace Carothers invents nylon.
July 28 » First flight of the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress.
August 14 » Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Social Security Act, creating a government pension system for the retired.
September 3 » Sir Malcolm Campbell reaches a speed of 304.331 miles per hour on the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah, becoming the first person to drive an automobile over 300mph.
December 30 » The Italian Air Force bombs a Swedish Red Cross hospital during the Second Italo-Abyssinian War.
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