The temperature on September 1, 1890 was about 14.3 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the north-northwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 71%. Source: KNMI
July 3 » Idaho is admitted as the 43rd U.S. state.
July 10 » Wyoming is admitted as the 44th U.S. state.
July 27 » Vincent van Gogh shoots himself and dies two days later.
September 12 » Salisbury, Rhodesia, is founded.
December 15 » Hunkpapa Lakota leader Sitting Bull is killed on Standing Rock Indian Reservation, leading to the Wounded Knee Massacre.
December 22 » Cornwallis Valley Railway begins operation between Kentville and Kingsport, Nova Scotia.
Day of death April 4, 1977
The temperature on April 4, 1977 was between -1.5 °C and 7.5 °C and averaged 2.9 °C. There was 1.7 mm of rain during 2.3 hours. There was 1.4 hours of sunshine (11%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Friday, May 11, 1973 to Monday, December 19, 1977 the cabinet Den Uyl, with Drs. J.M. den Uyl (PvdA) as prime minister.
In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, December 19, 1977 to Friday, September 11, 1981 the cabinet Van Agt I, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA/KVP) as prime minister.
January 18 » Scientists identify a previously unknown bacterium as the cause of the mysterious Legionnaires' disease.
January 28 » The first day of the Great Lakes Blizzard of 1977 which dumps 10 feet (3.0m) of snow in one day in Upstate New York, with Buffalo, Syracuse, Watertown, and surrounding areas are most affected.
July 4 » The George Jackson Brigade plants a bomb at the main power substation for the Washington state capitol in Olympia, in solidarity with a prison strike at the Walla Walla State Penitentiary Intensive Security Unit.
September 7 » The Torrijos–Carter Treaties between Panama and the United States on the status of the Panama Canal are signed. The United States agrees to transfer control of the canal to Panama at the end of the 20th century.
October 14 » Anita Bryant gets a pie thrown in her face at a news conference in Des Moines by gay rights activist Tom Higgins for her anti-LGBT commentary.
December 6 » South Africa grants independence to Bophuthatswana, although it is not recognized by any other country.
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