The temperature on August 29, 1876 was about 19.4 °C. There was 2 mm of rain. The air pressure was 15 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 62%. 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).
February 26 » Japan and Korea sign a treaty granting Japanese citizens extraterritoriality rights, opening three ports to Japanese trade, and ending Korea's status as a tributary state of Qing dynasty China.
March 7 » Alexander Graham Bell is granted a patent for an invention he calls the "telephone".
March 10 » The first successful test of a telephone is made by Alexander Graham Bell.
April 17 » Catalpa rescue: The rescue of six Fenian prisoners from Fremantle Prison in Western Australia.
June 25 » Battle of the Little Bighorn and the death of Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer.
October 4 » The Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas opens as the first public college in Texas.
Day of marriage March 5, 1902
The temperature on March 5, 1902 was between -1.1 °C and 11.4 °C and averaged 4.7 °C. There was 9.3 hours of sunshine (84%). Source: KNMI
February 27 » Second Boer War: Australian soldiers Harry "Breaker" Morant and Peter Handcock are executed in Pretoria after being convicted of war crimes.
April 18 » The 7.5 Mw Guatemala earthquake shakes Guatemala with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe), killing between 800–2,000.
April 20 » Pierre and Marie Curie refine radium chloride.
June 24 » King Edward VII of the United Kingdom develops appendicitis, delaying his coronation.
July 17 » Willis Carrier creates the first air conditioner in Buffalo, New York.
December 14 » The Commercial Pacific Cable Company lays the first Pacific telegraph cable, from San Francisco to Honolulu.
Day of death October 16, 1959
The temperature on October 16, 1959 was between 5.3 °C and 20.0 °C and averaged 11.9 °C. There was 9.0 hours of sunshine (84%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east. Source: KNMI
February 6 » At Cape Canaveral, Florida, the first successful test firing of a Titan intercontinental ballistic missile is accomplished.
February 11 » The Federation of Arab Emirates of the South is created as a protectorate of the United Kingdom.
May 16 » The Triton Fountain in Valletta, Malta is turned on for the first time.
July 7 » Venus occults the star Regulus. This rare event is used to determine the diameter of Venus and the structure of the Venusian atmosphere.
September 27 » Typhoon Vera kills nearly 5,000 people in Japan.
December 1 » Cold War: Opening date for signature of the Antarctic Treaty, which sets aside Antarctica as a scientific preserve and bans military activity on the continent.
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