Profession: ambtenaar Departement van Oorlog (later Defensie) 1900, Administrateur Departement van Waterstaat, Officier in de Orde van Oranje-Nassau, eervol ontsl.
The temperature on January 16, 1877 was about 4.0 °C. The air pressure was 8 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 88%. 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.
February 20 » Tchaikovsky's ballet Swan Lake receives its premiere at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow.
July 10 » The then-villa of Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, formally receives its city charter from the Royal Crown of Spain.
October 5 » The Nez Perce War in the northwestern United States comes to an end.
October 22 » The Blantyre mining disaster in Scotland kills 207 miners.
November 29 » Thomas Edison demonstrates his phonograph for the first time.
Day of marriage September 2, 1910
The temperature on September 2, 1910 was between 5.1 °C and 19.6 °C and averaged 13.3 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain. There was 6.4 hours of sunshine (47%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
April 29 » The Parliament of the United Kingdom passes the People's Budget, the first budget in British history with the expressed intent of redistributing wealth among the British public.
September 20 » The ocean liner SSFrance, later known as the "Versailles of the Atlantic", is launched.
September 26 » Indian journalist Swadeshabhimani Ramakrishna Pillai is arrested after publishing criticism of the government of Travancore and is exiled.
October 15 » Airship America is launched from New Jersey in the first attempt to cross the Atlantic by a powered aircraft.
October 20 » The hull of the RMSOlympic, sister-ship to the ill-fated RMS Titanic, is launched from the Harland and Wolff shipyard in Belfast.
December 21 » An underground explosion at the Hulton Bank Colliery No. 3 Pit in Over Hulton, Westhoughton, England, kills 344 miners.
Day of death April 13, 1959
The temperature on April 13, 1959 was between 8.8 °C and 22.7 °C and averaged 15.4 °C. There was 8.2 hours of sunshine (60%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. Source: KNMI
January 7 » The United States recognizes the new Cuban government of Fidel Castro.
February 2 » Nine experienced ski hikers in the northern Ural Mountains in the Soviet Union die under mysterious circumstances.
June 23 » Convicted Manhattan Project spy Klaus Fuchs is released after only nine years in prison and allowed to emigrate to Dresden, East Germany where he resumes a scientific career.
September 15 » Nikita Khrushchev becomes the first Soviet leader to visit the United States.
September 16 » The first successful photocopier, the Xerox 914, is introduced in a demonstration on live television from New York City.
December 1 » Cold War: Opening date for signature of the Antarctic Treaty, which sets aside Antarctica as a scientific preserve and bans military activity on the continent.
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