The temperature on May 3, 1882 was about 15.5 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the east-southeast. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 74%. 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.
March 29 » The Knights of Columbus is established.
June 28 » The Anglo-French Convention of 1882 marks the territorial boundaries between Guinea and Sierra Leone.
July 26 » Premiere of Richard Wagner's opera Parsifal at Bayreuth.
July 26 » The Republic of Stellaland is founded in Southern Africa.
September 18 » The Pacific Stock Exchange opens.
September 30 » Thomas Edison's first commercial hydroelectric power plant (later known as Appleton Edison Light Company) begins operation.
Day of marriage July 27, 1904
The temperature on July 27, 1904 was between 9.8 °C and 20.8 °C and averaged 15.9 °C. There was 4.8 hours of sunshine (30%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
February 7 » A fire begins in Baltimore, Maryland; it destroys over 1,500 buildings in 30 hours.
February 9 » Russo-Japanese War: Battle of Port Arthur concludes.
April 30 » The Louisiana Purchase Exposition World's Fair opens in St. Louis, Missouri.
May 5 » Pitching against the Philadelphia Athletics at the Huntington Avenue Grounds, Cy Young of the Boston Americans throws the first perfect game in the modern era of baseball.
July 31 » Russo-Japanese War: Battle of Hsimucheng: Units of the Imperial Japanese Army defeat units of the Imperial Russian Army in a strategic confrontation.
December 6 » Theodore Roosevelt articulated his "Corollary" to the Monroe Doctrine, stating that the U.S. would intervene in the Western Hemisphere should Latin American governments prove incapable or unstable.
Day of death June 27, 1959
The temperature on June 27, 1959 was between 13.6 °C and 21.5 °C and averaged 17.0 °C. There was 4.1 mm of rain during 2.3 hours. There was 2.4 hours of sunshine (14%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
February 9 » The R-7 Semyorka, the first intercontinental ballistic missile, becomes operational at Plesetsk, USSR.
July 21 » Elijah Jerry "Pumpsie" Green becomes the first African-American to play for the Boston Red Sox, the last team to integrate. He came in as a pinch runner for Vic Wertz and stayed in as shortstop in a 2–1 loss to the Chicago White Sox.
July 29 » First United States Congress elections in Hawaii as a state of the Union.
September 26 » Typhoon Vera, the strongest typhoon to hit Japan in recorded history, makes landfall, killing 4,580 people and leaving nearly 1.6 million others homeless.
October 12 » At the national congress of the American Popular Revolutionary Alliance in Peru, a group of leftist radicals are expelled from the party who later form APRA Rebelde.
October 21 » In New York City, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum opens to the public.
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