The temperature on October 28, 1877 was about 8.3 °C. There was 5 mm of rain. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 98%. 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).
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.
February 20 » Tchaikovsky's ballet Swan Lake receives its premiere at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow.
March 15 » First ever official cricket test match is played: Australia vs England at the MCG Stadium, in Melbourne, Australia.
June 17 » American Indian Wars: Battle of White Bird Canyon: The Nez Perce defeat the U.S. Cavalry at White Bird Canyon in the Idaho Territory.
November 21 » Thomas Edison announces his invention of the phonograph, a machine that can record and play sound.
November 29 » Thomas Edison demonstrates his phonograph for the first time.
December 6 » The first edition of The Washington Post is published.
Day of marriage April 8, 1909
The temperature on April 8, 1909 was between -0.7 °C and 16.6 °C and averaged 8.0 °C. There was 12.5 hours of sunshine (93%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. Source: KNMI
January 25 » Richard Strauss's opera Elektra receives its debut performance at the Dresden State Opera.
April 14 » A massacre is organized by the Ottoman Empire against the Armenian population of Cilicia.
July 16 » Persian Constitutional Revolution: Mohammad Ali Shah Qajar is forced out as Shah of Persia and is replaced by his son Ahmad Shah Qajar.
August 24 » Workers start pouring concrete for the Panama Canal.
October 26 » An Jung-geun assassinates Japan's Resident-General of Korea.
December 4 » In Canadian football, the First Grey Cup game is played. The University of Toronto Varsity Blues defeat the Toronto Parkdale Canoe Club, 26–6.
Day of death July 29, 1953
The temperature on July 29, 1953 was between 9.0 °C and 20.0 °C and averaged 14.4 °C. There was 4.5 hours of sunshine (29%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
March 5 » Joseph Stalin, the longest serving leader of the Soviet Union, dies at his Volynskoe dacha in Moscow after suffering a cerebral hemorrhage four days earlier.
April 27 » Operation Moolah offers $50,000 to any pilot who defected with a fully mission-capable Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15 to South Korea. The first pilot was to receive $100,000.
May 4 » Ernest Hemingway wins the Pulitzer Prize for The Old Man and the Sea.
July 27 » Cessation of hostilities is achieved in the Korean War when the United States, China, and North Korea sign an armistice agreement. Syngman Rhee, President of South Korea, refuses to sign but pledges to observe the armistice.
August 12 » The 7.2 Ms Ionian earthquake shakes the southern Ionian Islands with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme). Between 445 and 800 people are killed.
December 10 » British Prime Minister Winston Churchill receives the Nobel Prize in literature.
Day of burial August 1, 1953
The temperature on August 1, 1953 was between 9.3 °C and 20.1 °C and averaged 14.9 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 0.4 hours. There was 9.4 hours of sunshine (61%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
January 5 » The play Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett receives its première in Paris.
February 3 » The Batepá massacre occurred in São Tomé when the colonial administration and Portuguese landowners unleashed a wave of violence against the native creoles known as forros.
March 18 » An earthquake hits western Turkey, killing 265 people.
April 24 » Winston Churchill is knighted by Queen Elizabeth II.
August 12 » The first testing of a real thermonuclear weapon (not test devices): The Soviet atomic bomb project continues with the detonation of "RDS-6s" (Joe 4), the first Soviet thermonuclear bomb.
October 1 » Andhra State is formed, consisting of a Telugu-speaking area carved out of India's Madras State.
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