The temperature on August 10, 1878 was about 21.5 °C. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the south-southeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 66%. 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.
January 4 » Russo-Turkish War (1877–78): Sofia is liberated from Ottoman rule and designated the capital of Liberated Bulgaria.
January 28 » Yale Daily News becomes the first independent daily college newspaper in the United States.
March 15 » Restoration of the Scottish Catholic hierarchy, broken off back in 1603.
May 25 » Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera H.M.S. Pinafore opens at the Opera Comique in London.
July 1 » Canada joins the Universal Postal Union.
July 13 » Treaty of Berlin: The European powers redraw the map of the Balkans. Serbia, Montenegro and Romania become completely independent of the Ottoman Empire.
Day of marriage September 20, 1909
The temperature on September 20, 1909 was between 7.6 °C and 16.5 °C and averaged 12.2 °C. There was 4.6 mm of rain. There was 0.2 hours of sunshine (2%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
March 31 » Serbia formally withdraws its opposition to Austro-Hungarian actions in the Bosnian Crisis.
August 28 » A group of mid-level Greek Army officers launches the Goudi coup, seeking wide-ranging reforms.
August 30 » Burgess Shale fossils are discovered by Charles Doolittle Walcott.
September 20 » The South Africa Act 1909 creates the Union of South Africa from the British Colonies from four smaller colonies.
October 26 » An Jung-geun assassinates Japan's Resident-General of Korea.
December 4 » In Canadian football, the First Grey Cup game is played. The University of Toronto Varsity Blues defeat the Toronto Parkdale Canoe Club, 26–6.
Day of death August 14, 1957
The temperature on August 14, 1957 was between 11.9 °C and 21.5 °C and averaged 16.6 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain during 0.7 hours. There was 9.8 hours of sunshine (66%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
March 4 » The S&P 500 stock market index is introduced, replacing the S&P 90.
March 8 » Egypt re-opens the Suez Canal after the Suez Crisis.
March 31 » Elections to the Territorial Assembly of the French colony Upper Volta are held. After the elections PDU and MDV form a government.
June 24 » In Roth v. United States, the U.S. Supreme Court rules that obscenity is not protected by the First Amendment.
July 11 » Prince Karim Husseini Aga Khan IV inherits the office of Imamat as the 49th Imam of Shia Imami Ismai'li worldwide, after the death of Sir Sultan Mahommed Shah Aga Khan III.
September 25 » Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, is integrated by the use of United States Army troops.
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