The temperature on August 15, 1878 was about 22.2 °C. There was 7 mm of rain. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 66%. 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 28 » Yale Daily News becomes the first independent daily college newspaper in the United States.
February 21 » The first telephone directory is issued in New Haven, Connecticut.
February 22 » In Utica, New York, Frank Woolworth opens the first of many of five-and-dime Woolworth stores.
September 1 » Emma Nutt becomes the world's first female telephone operator when she is recruited by Alexander Graham Bell to the Boston Telephone Dispatch Company.
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 September 2, 1908
The temperature on September 2, 1908 was between 7.1 °C and 16.6 °C and averaged 12.1 °C. There was 6.5 mm of rain. There was 5.0 hours of sunshine (37%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from August 17, 1905 to February 11, 1908 the cabinet De Meester, with Mr. Th. de Meester (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
In The Netherlands , there was from February 12, 1908 to August 29, 1913 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. Th. Heemskerk (AR) as prime minister.
January 11 » Grand Canyon National Monument is created.
January 13 » The Rhoads Opera House fire in Boyertown, Pennsylvania kills 171 people.
January 30 » Indian pacifist and leader Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi is released from prison by Jan C. Smuts after being tried and sentenced to two months in jail earlier in the month.
June 30 » The Tunguska Event, the largest impact event on Earth in human recorded history, resulting in a massive explosion over Eastern Siberia.
July 1 » SOS is adopted as the international distress signal.
October 6 » The Bosnian crisis erupts when Austria-Hungary formally annexes Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Day of death September 27, 1961
The temperature on September 27, 1961 was between 11.7 °C and 21.7 °C and averaged 16.6 °C. There was 0.8 mm of rain during 1.4 hours. There was 2.8 hours of sunshine (23%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. Source: KNMI
January 27 » The Soviet submarine S-80 sinks when its snorkel malfunctions, flooding the boat.
March 30 » The Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs is signed in New York City.
May 9 » FCC Chairman Newton N. Minow gives his Wasteland Speech.
September 20 » Greek general Konstantinos Dovas becomes Prime Minister of Greece.
November 18 » United States President John F. Kennedy sends 18,000 military advisors to South Vietnam.
December 17 » Niterói circus fire: Fire breaks out during a performance by the Gran Circus Norte-Americano in the city of Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, killing more than 500.
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