The temperature on May 10, 1876 was about 13.4 °C. The air pressure was 15 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the east-northeast. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 24%. Source: KNMI
From August 27, 1874 till November 3, 1877 the Netherlands had a cabinet Heemskerk - Van Lijnden van Sandenburg with the prime ministers Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief) and Mr. C.Th. baron Van Lijnden van Sandenburg (AR).
March 10 » The first successful test of a telephone is made by Alexander Graham Bell.
May 2 » The April Uprising breaks out in Ottoman Bulgaria.
May 30 » Ottoman sultan Abdülaziz is deposed and succeeded by his nephew Murad V.
June 17 » American Indian Wars: Battle of the Rosebud: 1,500 Sioux and Cheyenne led by Crazy Horse beat back General George Crook's forces at Rosebud Creek in Montana Territory.
July 8 » The Hamburg massacre prior to the 1876 United States presidential election results in the deaths of six African-Americans of the Republican Party, along with one white assailant.
December 29 » The Ashtabula River railroad disaster occurs, leaving 64 injured and 92 dead at Ashtabula, Ohio.
Day of marriage August 6, 1903
The temperature on August 6, 1903 was between 10.2 °C and 18.5 °C and averaged 14.5 °C. There was 6.6 hours of sunshine (43%). Source: KNMI
February 14 » The United States Department of Commerce and Labor is established (later split into the Department of Commerce and the Department of Labor).
February 23 » Cuba leases Guantánamo Bay to the United States "in perpetuity".
April 26 » Atlético Madrid Association football club is founded
June 16 » The Ford Motor Company is incorporated.
November 18 » The Hay–Bunau-Varilla Treaty is signed by the United States and Panama, giving the United States exclusive rights over the Panama Canal Zone.
December 16 » Taj Mahal Palace & Tower hotel in Bombay first opens its doors to guests.
Day of death July 16, 1943
The temperature on July 16, 1943 was between 8.8 °C and 21.4 °C and averaged 16.3 °C. There was 10.4 hours of sunshine (64%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. 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.
April 7 » The Holocaust in Ukraine: In Terebovlia, Germans order 1,100 Jews to undress and march through the city to the nearby village of Plebanivka, where they are shot and buried in ditches.
August 31 » USSHarmon, the first U.S. Navy ship to be named after a black person, is commissioned.
October 14 » World War II: The Second Philippine Republic, a puppet state of Japan, is inaugurated with José P. Laurel as its president.
November 23 » World War II: Tarawa and Makin atolls fall to American forces.
November 28 » World War II: Tehran Conference: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin meet in Tehran, Iran, to discuss war strategy.
December 30 » Subhas Chandra Bose raises the flag of Indian independence at Port Blair.
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