The temperature on October 2, 1876 was about 14.1 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the south east. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 49%. 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).
March 7 » Alexander Graham Bell is granted a patent for an invention he calls the "telephone".
May 10 » The Centennial Exposition is opened in Philadelphia.
June 4 » An express train called the Transcontinental Express arrives in San Francisco, via the First Transcontinental Railroad only 83 hours and 39 minutes after leaving New York City.
August 1 » Colorado is admitted as the 38th U.S. state.
August 8 » Thomas Edison receives a patent for his mimeograph.
October 4 » The Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas opens as the first public college in Texas.
Day of death January 9, 1960
The temperature on January 9, 1960 was between -4.5 °C and -0.4 °C and averaged -2.5 °C. There was 6.1 hours of sunshine (76%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
January 28 » The National Football League announced expansion teams for Dallas to start in the 1960 NFL season and Minneapolis-St. Paul for 1961 NFL season.
April 15 » At Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina, Ella Baker leads a conference that results in the creation of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, one of the principal organizations of the civil rights movement in the 1960s.
May 11 » Adolf Eichmann is captured by the Mossad in Argentina.
July 11 » Congo Crisis: The State of Katanga breaks away from the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
July 11 » To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is first published, in the United States.
August 1 » Dahomey (later renamed Benin) declares independence from France.
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