The temperature on October 22, 1880 was about 5.7 °C. The air pressure was 5 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the east-northeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 79%. 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 27 » Thomas Edison receives a patent for his incandescent lamp.
February 13 » Thomas Edison observes Thermionic emission.
June 24 » First performance of O Canada at the Congrès national des Canadiens-Français. The song would later become the national anthem of Canada.
June 29 » France annexes Tahiti, renaming the independent Kingdom of Tahiti as "Etablissements de français de l'Océanie".
September 16 » The Cornell Daily Sun prints its first issue in Ithaca, New York. The Sun is the United States' oldest, continuously-independent college daily.
December 16 » Outbreak of the First Boer War between the Boer South African Republic and the British Empire.
Day of marriage May 30, 1900
The temperature on May 30, 1900 was about 12.8 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 97%. Source: KNMI
April 5 » Archaeologists in Knossos, Crete, discover a large cache of clay tablets with hieroglyphic writing in a script they call Linear B.
April 30 » Hawaii becomes a territory of the United States, with Sanford B. Dole as governor.
May 17 » Second Boer War: British troops relieve Mafeking.
May 24 » Second Boer War: The United Kingdom annexes the Orange Free State.
August 14 » The Eight-Nation Alliance occupies Beijing, China, in a campaign to end the bloody Boxer Rebellion in China.
December 19 » Hopetoun Blunder: The first Governor-General of Australia John Hope, 7th Earl of Hopetoun, appoints Sir William Lyne premier of the new state of New South Wales, but he is unable to persuade other colonial politicians to join his government and is forced to resign.
Day of death June 25, 1971
The temperature on June 25, 1971 was between 10.5 °C and 21.8 °C and averaged 16.8 °C. There was 6.6 hours of sunshine (39%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
March 12 » The 1971 Turkish military memorandum is sent to the Süleyman Demirel government of Turkey and the government resigns.
September 11 » The Egyptian Constitution becomes official.
November 21 » Indian troops, partly aided by Mukti Bahini (Bengali guerrillas), defeat the Pakistan army in the Battle of Garibpur.
November 30 » Iran seizes the Greater and Lesser Tunbs from the Emirates of Sharjah and Ras Al Khaimah.
December 6 » Pakistan severs diplomatic relations with India, initiating the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971.
December 14 » Bangladesh Liberation War: Over 200 of East Pakistan's intellectuals are executed by the Pakistan Army and their local allies. (The date is commemorated in Bangladesh as Martyred Intellectuals Day.)
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