The temperature on March 29, 1878 was about 2.7 °C. There was 4 mm of rain. The air pressure was 6 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the north-northeast. The airpressure was 74 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 94%. 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 4 » Russo-Turkish War (1877–78): Sofia is liberated from Ottoman rule and designated the capital of Liberated Bulgaria.
January 28 » Yale Daily News becomes the first independent daily college newspaper in the United States.
March 3 » The Russo-Turkish War ends with Bulgaria regaining its independence from the Ottoman Empire according to the Treaty of San Stefano.
March 24 » The British frigate HMSEurydice sinks, killing more than 300.
June 15 » Eadweard Muybridge takes a series of photographs to prove that all four feet of a horse leave the ground when it runs; the study becomes the basis of motion pictures.
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 May 15, 1909
The temperature on May 15, 1909 was between -0.4 °C and 10.9 °C and averaged 6.0 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. There was 2.7 hours of sunshine (17%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north. Source: KNMI
January 28 » United States troops leave Cuba with the exception of Guantanamo Bay Naval Base after being there since the Spanish–American War.
February 15 » The Flores Theater fire in Acapulco, Mexico kills 250.
February 26 » Kinemacolor, the first successful color motion picture process, is first shown to the general public at the Palace Theatre in London.
March 10 » By signing the Anglo-Siamese Treaty of 1909, Thailand relinquishes its sovereignty over the Malay states of Kedah, Kelantan, Perlis and Terengganu, which become British protectorates.
August 7 » Alice Huyler Ramsey and three friends become the first women to complete a transcontinental auto trip, taking 59 days to travel from New York, New York to San Francisco, California.
August 28 » A group of mid-level Greek Army officers launches the Goudi coup, seeking wide-ranging reforms.
Day of death February 9, 1954
The temperature on February 9, 1954 was between -5.1 °C and 1.9 °C and averaged -1.5 °C. There was 3.4 hours of sunshine (36%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. Source: KNMI
May 17 » The United States Supreme Court hands down a unanimous decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, outlawing racial segregation in public schools.
June 14 » U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs a bill into law that places the words "under God" into the United States Pledge of Allegiance.
August 13 » Radio Pakistan broadcasts the "Qaumī Tarāna", the national anthem of Pakistan for the first time.
September 29 » The convention establishing CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research) is signed.
October 27 » Benjamin O. Davis, Jr. becomes the first African-American general in the United States Air Force.
December 4 » The first Burger King is opened in Miami, Florida.
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