The temperature on September 19, 1879 was about 15.9 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 91%. 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.
January 23 » Anglo-Zulu War: the Battle of Rorke's Drift ends.
January 25 » The Bulgarian National Bank is founded.
May 14 » The first group of 463 Indian indentured laborers arrives in Fiji aboard the Leonidas.
July 4 » Anglo-Zulu War: The Zululand capital of Ulundi is captured by British troops and burned to the ground, ending the war and forcing King Cetshwayo to flee.
October 8 » War of the Pacific: The Chilean Navy defeats the Peruvian Navy in the Battle of Angamos.
December 31 » Thomas Edison demonstrates incandescent lighting to the public for the first time, in Menlo Park, New Jersey.
Day of marriage December 27, 1907
The temperature on December 27, 1907 was between -5.5 °C and -0.8 °C and averaged -3.2 °C. There was 1.0 hours of sunshine (13%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east. 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.
August 17 » Pike Place Market, a popular tourist destination and registered historic district in Seattle, opened.
October 17 » Marconi begins the first commercial transatlantic wireless service.
October 22 » A run on the stock of the Knickerbocker Trust Company sets events in motion that will spark the Panic of 1907.
December 8 » King Gustaf V of Sweden accedes to the Swedish throne.
December 14 » The Thomas W. Lawson, the largest ever ship without a heat engine, runs aground and founders near the Hellweather's Reef within the Isles of Scilly in a gale. The pilot and 15 seamen die.
December 19 » Two hundred thirty-nine coal miners die in the Darr Mine Disaster in Jacobs Creek, Pennsylvania.
Day of death February 20, 1955
The temperature on February 20, 1955 was between -4.5 °C and 0.1 °C and averaged -1.8 °C. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. Source: KNMI
January 2 » Following the assassination of the Panamanian president José Antonio Remón Cantera, his deputy, José Ramón Guizado, takes power, but is quickly deposed after his involvement in Cantera's death is discovered.
April 11 » The Air India Kashmir Princess is bombed and crashes in a failed assassination attempt on Zhou Enlai by the Kuomintang.
June 14 » Chile becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
September 16 » The military coup to unseat President Juan Perón of Argentina is launched at midnight.
October 26 » After the last Allied troops have left the country, and following the provisions of the Austrian Independence Treaty, Austria declares that it will never join a military alliance.
December 20 » Cardiff is proclaimed the capital city of Wales, United Kingdom.
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