The temperature on November 27, 1876 was about 2.2 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the south-southeast. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 93%. 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).
April 17 » Catalpa rescue: The rescue of six Fenian prisoners from Fremantle Prison in Western Australia.
April 20 » The April Uprising begins. Its suppression shocks European opinion, and Bulgarian independence becomes a condition for ending the Russo-Turkish War.
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 31 » Ottoman Sultan Murad V is deposed and succeeded by his brother Abdul Hamid II.
October 4 » The Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas opens as the first public college in Texas.
December 23 » First day of the Constantinople Conference which resulted in agreement for political reforms in the Balkans.
Day of death November 15, 1966
The temperature on November 15, 1966 was between 2.8 °C and 9.9 °C and averaged 6.7 °C. There was 10.7 mm of rain during 9.6 hours. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
July 4 » U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Freedom of Information Act into United States law. The act went into effect the next year.
July 6 » Malawi becomes a republic, with Hastings Banda as its first President.
August 1 » Charles Whitman kills 16 people at the University of Texas at Austin before being killed by the police.
August 18 » Vietnam War: The Battle of Long Tan ensues after a patrol from the 6th Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment clashes with a Viet Cong force in Phước Tuy Province.
December 27 » The Cave of Swallows, the largest known cave shaft in the world, is discovered in Aquismón, San Luis Potosí, Mexico.
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