The temperature on November 21, 1881 was about 8.1 °C. The air pressure was 4 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 91%. 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 25 » Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell form the Oriental Telephone Company.
February 16 » The Canadian Pacific Railway is incorporated by Act of Parliament at Ottawa (44th Vic., c.1).
June 14 » The White Rajahs territories become the British protectorate of Sarawak.
November 3 » The Mapuche uprising of 1881 begins in Chile.
November 9 » Mapuche rebels attack the fortified Chilean settlement of Temuco.
December 4 » The first edition of the Los Angeles Times is published.
Day of death April 2, 1969
The temperature on April 2, 1969 was between 2.3 °C and 7.7 °C and averaged 4.4 °C. There was 4.6 hours of sunshine (35%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north. Source: KNMI
July 19 » Chappaquiddick incident: U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy crashes his car into a tidal pond at Chappaquiddick Island, Massachusetts, killing his passenger Mary Jo Kopechne.
July 24 » Apollo program: Apollo 11 splashes down safely in the Pacific Ocean.
November 10 » National Educational Television (the predecessor to the Public Broadcasting Service) in the United States debuts Sesame Street.
November 19 » Association football player Pelé scores his 1,000th goal.
November 21 » U.S. President Richard Nixon and Japanese Premier Eisaku Satō agree on the return of Okinawa to Japanese control in 1972. The U.S. retains rights to bases on the island, but these are to be nuclear-free.
December 8 » Olympic Airways Flight 954 strikes a mountain outside of Keratea, Greece, killing 90 people in the worst crash of a Douglas DC-6 in history.
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