The temperature on March 19, 1907 was between 3.1 °C and 9.2 °C and averaged 6.5 °C. There was 2.1 mm of rain. There was 8.3 hours of sunshine (69%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from August 17, 1905 to February 11, 1908 the cabinet De Meester, with Mr. Th. de Meester (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
February 5 » Belgian chemist Leo Baekeland announces the creation of Bakelite, the world's first synthetic plastic.
April 17 » The Ellis Island immigration center processes 11,747 people, more than on any other day.
July 7 » Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. staged his first Follies on the roof of the New York Theater in New York City.
August 15 » Ordination in Constantinople of Fr. Raphael Morgan, the first African-American Orthodox priest, "Priest-Apostolic" to America and the West Indies.
December 10 » The worst night of the Brown Dog riots in London, when 1,000 medical students clash with 400 police officers over the existence of a memorial for animals that have been vivisected.
December 16 » The American Great White Fleet begins its circumnavigation of the world.
Day of death November 8, 1978
The temperature on November 8, 1978 was between 1.6 °C and 10.5 °C and averaged 5.5 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 5.1 hours of sunshine (55%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. Source: KNMI
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 13 » United States Food and Drug Administration requires all blood donations to be labeled "paid" or "volunteer" donors.
April 27 » Former United States President Nixon aide John D. Ehrlichman is released from an Arizona prison after serving 18 months for Watergate-related crimes.
July 10 » President Moktar Ould Daddah of Mauritania is ousted in a bloodless coup d'état.
August 10 » Three members of the Ulrich family are killed in an accident. This leads to the Ford Pinto litigation.
October 3 » A Finnish Air Force DC-3 crashes, killing all 15 people on board.
November 3 » Dominica gains its independence from the United Kingdom.
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