The temperature on June 2, 1876 was about 11.5 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the north-northeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 70%. 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 10 » The Centennial Exposition is opened in Philadelphia.
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.
November 23 » Corrupt Tammany Hall leader William Magear Tweed (better known as Boss Tweed) is delivered to authorities in New York City after being captured in Spain.
November 25 » American Indian Wars: In retaliation for the American defeat at the Battle of the Little Bighorn, United States Army troops sack the sleeping village of Cheyenne Chief Dull Knife at the headwaters of the Powder River.
Day of marriage March 4, 1895
The temperature on March 4, 1895 was about -1.2 °C. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 90%. Source: KNMI
January 5 » Dreyfus affair: French army officer Alfred Dreyfus is stripped of his rank and sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil's Island.
June 28 » The United States Court of Private Land Claims rules James Reavis’s claim to Barony of Arizona is "wholly fictitious and fraudulent."
October 22 » In Paris an express train derails after overrunning the buffer stop, crossing almost 30 metres (100ft) of concourse before crashing through a wall and falling 10 metres (33ft) to the road below.
November 5 » George B. Selden is granted the first U.S. patent for an automobile.
November 28 » The first American automobile race takes place over the 54 miles from Chicago's Jackson Park to Evanston, Illinois. Frank Duryea wins in approximately 10 hours.
December 28 » Wilhelm Röntgen publishes a paper detailing his discovery of a new type of radiation, which later will be known as x-rays.
Day of death July 8, 1960
The temperature on July 8, 1960 was between 12.9 °C and 18.5 °C and averaged 14.4 °C. There was 20.1 mm of rain during 7.8 hours. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. Source: KNMI
January 21 » Avianca Flight 671 crashes at Montego Bay, Jamaica airport, killing 37 people.
February 29 » The 5.7Mw Agadir earthquake shakes coastal Morocco with a maximum perceived intensity of X (Extreme), destroying Agadir, and leaving 12,000 dead and another 12,000 injured.
March 22 » Arthur Leonard Schawlow and Charles Hard Townes receive the first patent for a laser.
June 25 » Cold War: Two cryptographers working for the United States National Security Agency left for vacation to Mexico, and from there defected to the Soviet Union.
August 20 » Senegal breaks from the Mali Federation, declaring its independence.
October 19 » The United States imposes a near-total trade embargo against Cuba.
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