The temperature on March 25, 1878 was about 6.0 °C. The air pressure was 10 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the north-northeast. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 58%. 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.
May 14 » The last witchcraft trial held in the United States begins in Salem, Massachusetts, after Lucretia Brown, an adherent of Christian Science, accused Daniel Spofford of attempting to harm her through his mental powers.
May 25 » Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera H.M.S. Pinafore opens at the Opera Comique in London.
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.
December 31 » Karl Benz, working in Mannheim, Germany, filed for a patent on his first reliable two-stroke gas engine, and he was granted the patent in 1879.
Day of marriage April 18, 1901
The temperature on April 18, 1901 was between -1.5 °C and 12.6 °C and averaged 6.2 °C. There was 9.9 hours of sunshine (70%). Source: KNMI
May 9 » Australia opens its first national parliament in Melbourne.
August 21 » Six hundred American school teachers, Thomasites, arrived in Manila on the USAT Thomas.
October 12 » President Theodore Roosevelt officially renames the "Executive Mansion" to the White House.
November 27 » The U.S. Army War College is established.
December 10 » The first Nobel Prize ceremony is held in Stockholm on the fifth anniversary of Alfred Nobel's death.
Day of death June 21, 1960
The temperature on June 21, 1960 was between 11.0 °C and 16.8 °C and averaged 14.0 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain during 1.9 hours. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest. Source: KNMI
April 1 » The TIROS-1 satellite transmits the first television picture from space.
April 8 » The Netherlands and West Germany sign an agreement to negotiate the return of German land annexed by the Dutch in return for 280million German marks as Wiedergutmachung.
May 7 » Cold War: U-2 Crisis of 1960: Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev announces that his nation is holding American U-2 pilot Gary Powers.
May 22 » The Great Chilean earthquake, measuring 9.5 on the moment magnitude scale, hits southern Chile, becoming the most powerful earthquake ever recorded.
July 11 » Congo Crisis: The State of Katanga breaks away from the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
November 1 » While campaigning for President of the United States, John F. Kennedy announces his idea of the Peace Corps.
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