February 11 » Anton Bruckner's 9th Symphony receives its first performance in Vienna, Austria.
February 14 » The United States Department of Commerce and Labor is established (later split into the Department of Commerce and the Department of Labor).
June 16 » The Ford Motor Company is incorporated.
July 23 » The Ford Motor Company sells its first car.
August 18 » German engineer Karl Jatho allegedly flies his self-made, motored gliding airplane four months before the first flight of the Wright brothers.
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 May 9, 1978
The temperature on May 9, 1978 was between 6.9 °C and 17.6 °C and averaged 12.4 °C. There was 14.1 hours of sunshine (92%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, December 19, 1977 to Friday, September 11, 1981 the cabinet Van Agt I, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA/KVP) as prime minister.
January 31 » The Crown of St. Stephen (also known as the Holy Crown of Hungary) goes on public display after being returned to Hungary from the United States, where it was held after World War II.
February 8 » Proceedings of the United States Senate are broadcast on radio for the first time.
February 24 » The Yuba County Five disappear in California. Four of their bodies are found four months later.
July 1 » The Northern Territory in Australia is granted self-government.
July 25 » Puerto Rican police shoot two nationalists in the Cerro Maravilla murders.
August 19 » In Iran, Cinema Rex fire caused more than 400 deaths.
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