The temperature on December 12, 1876 was about 2.7 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain. The air pressure was 5 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the south-southeast. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 89%. 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.
April 11 » The Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks is organized.
April 20 » The April Uprising begins. Its suppression shocks European opinion, and Bulgarian independence becomes a condition for ending the Russo-Turkish War.
June 4 » An express train called the Transcontinental Express arrives in San Francisco, via the First Transcontinental Railroad only 83 hours and 39 minutes after leaving New York City.
June 17 » American Indian Wars: Battle of the Rosebud: 1,500 Sioux and Cheyenne led by Crazy Horse beat back General George Crook's forces at Rosebud Creek in Montana Territory.
October 4 » The Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas opens as the first public college in Texas.
Day of marriage December 2, 1903
The temperature on December 2, 1903 was between -2.3 °C and 3.9 °C and averaged 0.5 °C. There was 5.8 hours of sunshine (72%). Source: KNMI
February 14 » The United States Department of Commerce and Labor is established (later split into the Department of Commerce and the Department of Labor).
March 2 » In New York City the Martha Washington Hotel opens, becoming the first hotel exclusively for women.
March 14 » Pelican Island National Wildlife Refuge, the first national wildlife refuge in the US, is established by President Theodore Roosevelt.
April 26 » Atlético Madrid Association football club is founded
April 29 » A landslide kills 70 people in Frank, in the District of Alberta, Canada.
December 17 » The Wright brothers make the first controlled powered, heavier-than-air flight in the Wright Flyer at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
Day of death November 8, 1959
The temperature on November 8, 1959 was between -3.9 °C and 5.8 °C and averaged 0.7 °C. There was 0.2 hours of sunshine (2%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east. Source: KNMI
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