The temperature on November 15, 1876 was about 15.5 °C. The air pressure was 3 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the south-southeast. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 78%. 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).
February 14 » Alexander Graham Bell applies for a patent for the telephone, as does Elisha Gray.
March 7 » Alexander Graham Bell is granted a patent for an invention he calls the "telephone".
March 10 » The first successful test of a telephone is made by Alexander Graham Bell.
April 20 » The April Uprising begins. Its suppression shocks European opinion, and Bulgarian independence becomes a condition for ending the Russo-Turkish War.
May 30 » Ottoman sultan Abdülaziz is deposed and succeeded by his nephew Murad V.
September 7 » In Northfield, Minnesota, Jesse James and the James–Younger Gang attempt to rob the town's bank but are driven off by armed citizens.
Day of death February 22, 1961
The temperature on February 22, 1961 was between 0.5 °C and 11.2 °C and averaged 5.0 °C. There was 8.1 hours of sunshine (78%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east. Source: KNMI
January 20 » John F. Kennedy is inaugurated the 35th President of the United States of America, becoming the second youngest man to take the office, and the first Catholic.
February 4 » The Angolan War of Independence and the greater Portuguese Colonial War begin.
February 13 » An allegedly 500,000-year-old rock is discovered near Olancha, California, US, that appears to anachronistically encase a spark plug.
February 27 » The first congress of the Spanish Trade Union Organisation is inaugurated.
October 1 » East and West Cameroon merge to form the Federal Republic of Cameroon.
October 30 » Due to "violations of Vladimir Lenin's precepts", it is decreed that Joseph Stalin's body be removed from its place of honour inside Lenin's tomb and buried near the Kremlin Wall with a plain granite marker.
Day of burial February 25, 1961
The temperature on February 25, 1961 was between 5.9 °C and 13.2 °C and averaged 9.7 °C. There was 1.7 hours of sunshine (16%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
January 11 » Throgs Neck Bridge over the East River, linking New York City's boroughs of The Bronx and Queens, opens to road traffic.
January 25 » 101 Dalmatians premiered from Walt Disney Productions.
March 15 » At the 1961 Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference, South Africa announces that it will withdraw from the Commonwealth when the South African Constitution of 1961 comes into effect.
May 1 » The Prime Minister of Cuba, Fidel Castro, proclaims Cuba a socialist nation and abolishes elections.
July 19 » Tunisia imposes a blockade on the French naval base at Bizerte; the French would capture the entire town four days later.
December 31 » RTÉ, Ireland's state broadcaster, launches its first national television service.
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