The temperature on March 22, 1877 was about 3.0 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 86%. 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.
March 15 » First ever official cricket test match is played: Australia vs England at the MCG Stadium, in Melbourne, Australia.
April 24 » Russo-Turkish War: Russian Empire declares war on Ottoman Empire.
May 5 » American Indian Wars: Sitting Bull leads his band of Lakota into Canada to avoid harassment by the United States Army under Colonel Nelson Miles.
October 22 » The Blantyre mining disaster in Scotland kills 207 miners.
November 29 » Thomas Edison demonstrates his phonograph for the first time.
December 6 » The first edition of The Washington Post is published.
Day of death April 10, 1975
The temperature on April 10, 1975 was between -1.2 °C and 8.0 °C and averaged 2.9 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 8.4 hours of sunshine (62%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Friday, May 11, 1973 to Monday, December 19, 1977 the cabinet Den Uyl, with Drs. J.M. den Uyl (PvdA) as prime minister.
January 15 » The Alvor Agreement is signed, ending the Angolan War of Independence and giving Angola independence from Portugal.
February 28 » In London, an underground train fails to stop at Moorgate terminus station and crashes into the end of the tunnel, killing 43 people.
April 30 » Fall of Saigon: Communist forces gain control of Saigon. The Vietnam War formally ends with the unconditional surrender of South Vietnamese president Dương Văn Minh.
August 3 » A privately chartered Boeing 707 strikes a mountain peak and crashes near Agadir, Morocco, killing 188.
October 16 » Three-year-old Rahima Banu, from Bangladesh, is the last known case of naturally occurring smallpox.
November 12 » The Comoros joins the United Nations.
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