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 7 » Alexander Graham Bell is granted a patent for an invention he calls the "telephone".
May 30 » Ottoman sultan Abdülaziz is deposed and succeeded by his nephew Murad V.
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.
August 1 » Colorado is admitted as the 38th U.S. state.
August 8 » Thomas Edison receives a patent for his mimeograph.
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.
Day of marriage April 9, 1936
The temperature on April 9, 1936 was between 3.3 °C and 11.6 °C and averaged 6.7 °C. There was 5.8 hours of sunshine (43%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
January 15 » The first building to be completely covered in glass, built for the Owens-Illinois Glass Company, is completed in Toledo, Ohio.
February 16 » The Popular Front wins the 1936 Spanish general election.
February 26 » In the February 26 Incident, young Japanese military officers attempt to stage a coup against the government.
March 29 » Adolf Hitler receives 99% of the votes in the 1936 German parliamentary election and referendum.
July 6 » A major breach of the Manchester Bolton & Bury Canal in England sends millions of gallons of water cascading 200 feet (61m) into the River Irwell.
August 14 » Rainey Bethea is hanged in Owensboro, Kentucky in the last known public execution in the United States.
Day of death February 15, 1960
The temperature on February 15, 1960 was between 0.1 °C and 5.3 °C and averaged 1.5 °C. There was 5.3 mm of rain during 4.3 hours. There was 6.5 hours of sunshine (66%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
January 6 » The Associations Law comes into force in Iraq, allowing registration of political parties.
January 21 » Little Joe 1B, a Mercury spacecraft, lifts off from Wallops Island, Virginia with Miss Sam, a female rhesus monkey on board.
April 19 » Students in South Korea hold a nationwide pro-democracy protest against president Syngman Rhee, eventually forcing him to resign.
July 11 » Congo Crisis: The State of Katanga breaks away from the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
October 29 » In Louisville, Kentucky, Cassius Clay (who later takes the name Muhammad Ali) wins his first professional fight.
November 11 » A military coup against President Ngô Đình Diệm of South Vietnam is crushed.
Day of burial February 19, 1960
The temperature on February 19, 1960 was between -1.9 °C and 7.0 °C and averaged 1.8 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain during 0.4 hours. There was 2.6 hours of sunshine (26%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
January 23 » The bathyscaphe USS Trieste breaks a depth record by descending to 10,911 metres (35,797ft) in the Pacific Ocean.
February 26 » A New York-bound Alitalia airliner crashes into a cemetery in Shannon, Ireland, shortly after takeoff, killing 34 of the 52 persons on board.
April 1 » The TIROS-1 satellite transmits the first television picture from space.
August 1 » Islamabad is declared the federal capital of the Government of Pakistan.
September 18 » Fidel Castro arrives in New York City as the head of the Cuban delegation to the United Nations.
November 9 » Robert McNamara is named president of Ford Motor Company, the first non-Ford to serve in that post. A month later, he resigned to join the administration of newly elected John F. Kennedy.
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