The temperature on April 9, 1877 was about 11.1 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 90%. 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.
April 24 » Russo-Turkish War: Russian Empire declares war on Ottoman Empire.
June 15 » Henry Ossian Flipper becomes the first African American cadet to graduate from the United States Military Academy.
July 14 » The Great Railroad Strike of 1877 began in Martinsburg, West Virginia, when wages of Baltimore and Ohio Railroad workers were cut for the third time in a year. The strike was ended on Sept 4 by local and state militias, and federal troops.
September 24 » The Battle of Shiroyama is a decisive victory of the Imperial Japanese Army over the Satsuma Rebellion.
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.
Day of death September 8, 1960
The temperature on September 8, 1960 was between 10.4 °C and 19.7 °C and averaged 14.9 °C. There was 3.5 hours of sunshine (27%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north. Source: KNMI
January 21 » Little Joe 1B, a Mercury spacecraft, lifts off from Wallops Island, Virginia with Miss Sam, a female rhesus monkey on board.
January 30 » The African National Party is founded in Chad, through the merger of traditionalist parties.
May 13 » Hundreds of University of California, Berkeley students congregate for the first day of protest against a visit by the House Committee on Un-American Activities.
August 15 » Republic of the Congo (Brazzaville) becomes independent from France.
September 24 » USSEnterprise, the world's first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, is launched.
November 11 » A military coup against President Ngô Đình Diệm of South Vietnam is crushed.
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