The temperature on February 16, 1878 was about 6.5 °C. The air pressure was 4 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the southwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 95%. 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 4 » Russo-Turkish War (1877–78): Sofia is liberated from Ottoman rule and designated the capital of Liberated Bulgaria.
February 18 » John Tunstall is murdered by outlaw Jesse Evans, sparking the Lincoln County War in Lincoln County, New Mexico.
February 19 » Thomas Edison patents the phonograph.
March 15 » Restoration of the Scottish Catholic hierarchy, broken off back in 1603.
June 4 » Cyprus Convention: The Ottoman Empire cedes Cyprus to the United Kingdom but retains nominal title.
June 10 » League of Prizren is established, to oppose the decisions of the Congress of Berlin and the Treaty of San Stefano, as a consequence of which the Albanian lands in the Balkans were being partitioned and given to the neighbor states of Serbia, Montenegro, Bulgaria, and Greece.
Day of marriage October 22, 1902
The temperature on October 22, 1902 was between 3.3 °C and 12.5 °C and averaged 7.8 °C. There was 3.7 hours of sunshine (36%). Source: KNMI
January 1 » The first American college football bowl game, the Rose Bowl between Michigan and Stanford, is held in Pasadena, California.
January 30 » The first Anglo-Japanese Alliance is signed in London.
April 20 » Pierre and Marie Curie refine radium chloride.
August 9 » Edward VII and Alexandra of Denmark are crowned King and Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
August 22 » Cadillac Motor Company is founded.
November 21 » The Philadelphia Football Athletics defeated the Kanaweola Athletic Club of Elmira, New York, 39–0, in the first ever professional American football night game.
Day of death July 11, 1960
The temperature on July 11, 1960 was between 14.4 °C and 20.1 °C and averaged 16.2 °C. There was 6.0 mm of rain during 2.6 hours. There was 6.8 hours of sunshine (41%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
February 13 » Black college students stage the first of the Nashville sit-ins at three lunch counters in Nashville, Tennessee.
May 1 » Formation of the western Indian states of Gujarat and Maharashtra; also known as "Maharashtra Day".
July 12 » Orlyonok, the main Young Pioneer camp of the Russian SFSR, is founded.
August 9 » South Kasai secedes from the Congo.
October 29 » An airplane carrying the Cal Poly football team crashes on takeoff in Toledo, Ohio.
November 8 » John F. Kennedy is elected as the 35th President of the United States.
Day of burial July 13, 1960
The temperature on July 13, 1960 was between 11.1 °C and 20.6 °C and averaged 16.5 °C. There was 4.8 hours of sunshine (29%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
January 6 » The Associations Law comes into force in Iraq, allowing registration of political parties.
April 13 » The United States launches Transit 1-B, the world's first satellite navigation system.
May 15 » The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 4.
June 30 » Belgian Congo gains independence as Republic of the Congo (Léopoldville).
August 19 » Cold War: In Moscow, Russia, Soviet Union, downed American U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers is sentenced to ten years imprisonment by the Soviet Union for espionage.
October 12 » Japan Socialist Party leader Inejiro Asanuma is stabbed to death during a live Television broadcast.
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