The temperature on October 6, 1879 was about 15.6 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the west-northwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 73%. 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 8 » Sandford Fleming first proposes adoption of Universal Standard Time at a meeting of the Royal Canadian Institute.
February 15 » Women's rights: US President Rutherford B. Hayes signs a bill allowing female attorneys to argue cases before the Supreme Court of the United States.
March 11 » Shō Tai formally abdicated his position of King of Ryūkyū, under orders from Tokyo, ending the Ryukyu Kingdom.
April 5 » Chile declares war on Bolivia and Peru, starting the War of the Pacific.
December 21 » World premiere of Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House at the Royal Theatre in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Day of marriage February 14, 1903
The temperature on February 14, 1903 was between 3.1 °C and 7.4 °C and averaged 5.6 °C. Source: KNMI
March 2 » In New York City the Martha Washington Hotel opens, becoming the first hotel exclusively for women.
April 29 » A landslide kills 70 people in Frank, in the District of Alberta, Canada.
May 29 » In the May Coup, Alexander I, King of Serbia, and Queen Draga, are assassinated in Belgrade by the Black Hand (Crna Ruka) organization.
June 11 » A group of Serbian officers stormed the royal palace and assassinated King Alexander Obrenović and his wife, Queen Draga.
July 23 » The Ford Motor Company sells its first car.
August 18 » German engineer Karl Jatho allegedly flies his self-made, motored gliding airplane four months before the first flight of the Wright brothers.
Day of death July 10, 1944
The temperature on July 10, 1944 was between 12.3 °C and 17.3 °C and averaged 14.6 °C. There was 10.8 mm of rain during 3.1 hours. There was 3.6 hours of sunshine (22%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from July 27, 1941 to February 23, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy II, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
January 29 » In Bologna, Italy, the Anatomical theatre of the Archiginnasio is completely destroyed in an air-raid, during the Second World War.
June 9 » World War II: The Soviet Union invades East Karelia and the previously Finnish part of Karelia, occupied by Finland since 1941.
June 10 » World War II: In Distomo, Boeotia, Greece, 218 men, women and children are massacred by German troops.
July 18 » World War II: Hideki Tōjō resigns as Prime Minister of Japan because of numerous setbacks in the war effort.
October 25 » Second World War: The USSTang under Richard O'Kane (the top American submarine ace of the war) is sunk by the ship's own malfunctioning torpedo.
November 16 » World War II: Operation Queen, the costly Allied thrust to the Rur, is launched.
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