The temperature on November 11, 1879 was about 5.7 °C. There was 2 mm of rain. The air pressure was 11 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the southwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 92%. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from November 3, 1877 to August 20, 1879 the cabinet Kappeijne van de Coppello, with Mr. J. Kappeijne van de Coppello (liberaal) as prime minister.
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.
February 14 » The War of the Pacific breaks out when the Chilean Army occupies the Bolivian port city of Antofagasta.
May 14 » The first group of 463 Indian indentured laborers arrives in Fiji aboard the Leonidas.
July 1 » Charles Taze Russell publishes the first edition of the religious magazine The Watchtower.
August 28 » Cetshwayo, last king of the Zulus, is captured by the British.
October 22 » Using a filament of carbonized thread, Thomas Edison tests the first practical electric incandescent light bulb (it lasts 13⁄2 hours before burning out).
December 28 » Tay Bridge disaster: The central part of the Tay Rail Bridge in Dundee, Scotland, United Kingdom collapses as a train passes over it, killing 75.
Day of marriage August 8, 1900
The temperature on August 8, 1900 was about 19.1 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 63%. Source: KNMI
January 23 » Second Boer War: The Battle of Spion Kop between the forces of the South African Republic and the Orange Free State and British forces ends in a British defeat.
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 1 » The Scofield Mine disaster kills over 200 men in Scofield, Utah in what is to date the fifth-worst mining accident in United States history.
June 14 » The second German Naval Law calls for the Imperial German Navy to be doubled in size, resulting in an Anglo-German naval arms race.
September 8 » Galveston hurricane: A powerful hurricane hits Galveston, Texas killing about 8,000 people.
Day of death January 1, 1958
The temperature on January 1, 1958 was between 0.4 °C and 8.1 °C and averaged 4.0 °C. There was 14.3 mm of rain during 17.5 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. Source: KNMI
January 4 » Sputnik 1, the first artificial Earth satellite, launched by the Soviet Union in 1957, falls to Earth from orbit.
January 13 » The Moroccan Army of Liberation ambushes a Spanish patrol in the Battle of Edchera.
February 5 » A hydrogen bomb known as the Tybee Bomb is lost by the US Air Force off the coast of Savannah, Georgia, never to be recovered.
May 30 » Memorial Day: The remains of two unidentified American servicemen, killed in action during World War II and the Korean War respectively, are buried at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery.
August 3 » The world's first nuclear submarine, the USS Nautilus, becomes the first vessel to complete a submerged transit of the geographical North Pole.
August 18 » Vladimir Nabokov's controversial novel Lolita is published in the United States.
Day of burial January 6, 1958
The temperature on January 6, 1958 was between 1.7 °C and 10.3 °C and averaged 5.3 °C. There was 11.0 mm of rain during 4.3 hours. The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
May 13 » Ben Carlin becomes the first (and only) person to circumnavigate the world by amphibious vehicle, having travelled over 17,000 kilometres (11,000mi) by sea and 62,000 kilometres (39,000mi) by land during a ten-year journey.
July 1 » Flooding of Canada's Saint Lawrence Seaway begins.
August 23 » Chinese Civil War: The Second Taiwan Strait Crisis begins with the People's Liberation Army's bombardment of Quemoy.
November 28 » Chad, the Republic of the Congo, and Gabon become autonomous republics within the French Community.
December 1 » The Central African Republic attains self-rule within the French Union.
December 18 » Project SCORE, the world's first communications satellite, is launched.
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