May 26 » Dracula, a Gothic horror novel by Irish author Bram Stoker, is published.
June 16 » A treaty annexing the Republic of Hawaii to the United States is signed; the Republic would not be dissolved until a year later.
July 2 » British-Italian engineer Guglielmo Marconi obtains a patent for radio in London.
July 11 » Salomon August Andrée leaves Spitsbergen to attempt to reach the North Pole by balloon. He later crashes and dies.
August 21 » Oldsmobile, an American automobile manufacturer and marque, is founded.
August 31 » Thomas Edison patents the Kinetoscope, the first movie projector.
Day of death April 15, 1979
The temperature on April 15, 1979 was between 10.0 °C and 21.2 °C and averaged 15.2 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 6.0 hours of sunshine (43%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, December 19, 1977 to Friday, September 11, 1981 the cabinet Van Agt I, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA/KVP) as prime minister.
March 13 » The New Jewel Movement, headed by Maurice Bishop, ousts the Prime Minister of Grenada, Eric Gairy, in a coup d'état.
April 2 » A Soviet bio-warfare laboratory at Sverdlovsk accidentally releases airborne anthrax spores, killing 66 plus an unknown amount of livestock.
April 10 » Red River Valley tornado outbreak: A tornado lands in Wichita Falls, Texas killing 42 people.
April 11 » Ugandan dictator Idi Amin is deposed.
December 9 » The eradication of the smallpox virus is certified, making smallpox the first of only two diseases that have been driven to extinction (rinderpest in 2011 being the other).
December 10 » Kaohsiung Incident: Taiwanese pro-democracy demonstrations are suppressed by the KMT dictatorship, and organizers are arrested.
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