The temperature on October 23, 1878 was about 10.9 °C. There was 0.7 mm of rain. The air pressure was 16 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the southwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 76%. 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 28 » Yale Daily News becomes the first independent daily college newspaper in the United States.
February 19 » Thomas Edison patents the phonograph.
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.
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.
December 18 » The Al-Thani family become the rulers of the state of Qatar.
Day of marriage May 13, 1909
The temperature on May 13, 1909 was between 2.2 °C and 12.1 °C and averaged 7.0 °C. There was 10.7 hours of sunshine (69%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest. Source: KNMI
March 23 » Theodore Roosevelt leaves New York for a post-presidency safari in Africa. The trip is sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution and National Geographic Society.
June 26 » The Science Museum in London comes into existence as an independent entity.
July 25 » Louis Blériot makes the first flight across the English Channel in a heavier-than-air machine from Calais to Dover, England, United Kingdom in 37 minutes.
September 30 » The Cunard Line's RMS Mauretania makes a record-breaking westbound crossing of the Atlantic, that will not be bettered for 20 years.
October 26 » An Jung-geun assassinates Japan's Resident-General of Korea.
December 4 » The Montreal Canadiens ice hockey club, the oldest surviving professional hockey franchise in the world, is founded as a charter member of the National Hockey Association.
Day of death January 28, 1959
The temperature on January 28, 1959 was between -3.9 °C and 7.2 °C and averaged 0.5 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. There was 7.6 hours of sunshine (86%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east. Source: KNMI
January 7 » The United States recognizes the new Cuban government of Fidel Castro.
February 2 » Nine experienced ski hikers in the northern Ural Mountains in the Soviet Union die under mysterious circumstances.
February 17 » Project Vanguard: Vanguard 2: The first weather satellite is launched to measure cloud-cover distribution.
June 26 » Swedish boxer Ingemar Johansson becomes world champion of heavy weight boxing, by defeating American Floyd Patterson on technical knockout after two minutes and three seconds in the third round at Yankee Stadium.
August 31 » A parcel bomb sent by Ngô Đình Nhu, younger brother and chief adviser of South Vietnamese President Ngô Đình Diệm, fails to kill King Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia.
November 20 » The Declaration of the Rights of the Child is adopted by the United Nations.
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