The temperature on November 19, 1877 was about 7.2 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 14 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 92%. 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.
January 1 » Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom is proclaimed Empress of India.
April 24 » Russo-Turkish War: Russian Empire declares war on Ottoman Empire.
May 16 » The 16 May 1877 crisis occurs in France, ending with the dissolution of the National Assembly 22 June and affirming the interpretation of the Constitution of 1875 as a parliamentary rather than presidential system. The elections held in October 1877 led to the defeat of the royalists as a formal political movement in France.
June 15 » Henry Ossian Flipper becomes the first African American cadet to graduate from the United States Military Academy.
November 24 » Anna Sewell's animal welfare novel Black Beauty is published.
November 29 » Thomas Edison demonstrates his phonograph for the first time.
Day of marriage June 12, 1900
The temperature on June 12, 1900 was about 23.2 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 53%. Source: KNMI
January 16 » The United States Senate accepts the Anglo-German treaty of 1899 in which the United Kingdom renounces its claims to the Samoan islands.
March 24 » Mayor of New York City Robert Anderson Van Wyck breaks ground for a new underground "Rapid Transit Railroad" that would link Manhattan and Brooklyn.
April 30 » Hawaii becomes a territory of the United States, with Sanford B. Dole as governor.
June 9 » Indian nationalist Birsa Munda dies of cholera in a British prison.
June 18 » Empress Dowager Cixi of China orders all foreigners killed, including foreign diplomats and their families.
August 14 » The Eight-Nation Alliance occupies Beijing, China, in a campaign to end the bloody Boxer Rebellion in China.
Day of death March 17, 1961
The temperature on March 17, 1961 was between 3.6 °C and 20.0 °C and averaged 12.0 °C. There was 9.1 hours of sunshine (76%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
February 3 » The United States Air Forces begins Operation Looking Glass, and over the next 30 years, a "Doomsday Plane" is always in the air, with the capability of taking direct control of the United States' bombers and missiles in the event of the destruction of the SAC's command post.
May 5 » Alan Shepard becomes the first American to travel into outer space, on a sub-orbital flight.
May 19 » At Silchar Railway Station, Assam, 11 Bengalis die when police open fire on protesters demanding state recognition of Bengali language in the Bengali Language Movement.
October 29 » Syria exits from the United Arab Republic.
November 12 » Terry Jo Duperrault is the sole survivor of a series of brutal murders aboard the Ketch Bluebelle.
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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