The temperature on May 8, 1878 was about 9.4 °C. There was 12 mm of rain. The air pressure was 5 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the east. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 90%. 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.
May 25 » Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera H.M.S. Pinafore opens at the Opera Comique in London.
June 10 » League of Prizren is established, to oppose the decisions of the Congress of Berlin and the Treaty of San Stefano, as a consequence of which the Albanian lands in the Balkans were being partitioned and given to the neighbor states of Serbia, Montenegro, Bulgaria, and Greece.
October 22 » The Bramall Lane stadium sees the first rugby match played under floodlights.
November 17 » First assassination attempt against Umberto I of Italy by anarchist Giovanni Passannante, who was armed with a dagger. The King survived with a slight wound in an arm. Prime Minister Benedetto Cairoli blocked the aggressor, receiving an injury in a leg.
December 18 » The Al-Thani family become the rulers of the state of Qatar.
Day of marriage November 25, 1898
The temperature on November 25, 1898 was about 7.3 °C. The airpressure was 74 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 86%. Source: KNMI
March 16 » In Melbourne the representatives of five colonies adopted a constitution, which would become the basis of the Commonwealth of Australia.
April 21 » Spanish–American War: The United States Navy begins a blockade of Cuban ports. When the U.S. Congress issued a declaration of war on April 25, it declared that a state of war had existed from this date.
April 22 » Spanish–American War: The USSNashville captures a Spanish merchant ship.
June 21 » The United States captures Guam from Spain. The few warning shots fired by the U.S. naval vessels are misinterpreted as salutes by the Spanish garrison, which was unaware that the two nations were at war.
July 3 » A Spanish squadron, led by Pascual Cervera y Topete, is defeated by an American squadron under William T. Sampson in the Battle of Santiago de Cuba.
July 7 » US President William McKinley signs the Newlands Resolution annexing Hawaii as a territory of the United States.
Day of death August 7, 1966
The temperature on August 7, 1966 was between 12.6 °C and 19.2 °C and averaged 15.3 °C. There was 10.9 mm of rain during 9.2 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
January 13 » Robert C. Weaver becomes the first African American Cabinet member when he is appointed United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.
March 17 » Off the coast of Spain in the Mediterranean, the DSVAlvin submarine finds a missing American hydrogen bomb.
June 8 » The National Football League and American Football League announced a merger effective in 1970.
August 1 » Charles Whitman kills 16 people at the University of Texas at Austin before being killed by the police.
September 8 » The landmark American science fiction television series Star Trek premieres with its first-aired episode, "The Man Trap".
November 13 » In response to Fatah raids against Israelis near the West Bank border, Israel launches an attack on the village of As-Samu.
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