The temperature on May 5, 1879 was about 13.7 °C. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the east-northeast. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 58%. 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.
In The Netherlands , there was from August 20, 1879 to April 23, 1883 the cabinet Van Lijnden van Sandenburg, with Mr. C.Th. baron Van Lijnden van Sandenburg (conservatief-AR) as prime minister.
February 8 » Sandford Fleming first proposes adoption of Universal Standard Time at a meeting of the Royal Canadian Institute.
May 14 » The first group of 463 Indian indentured laborers arrives in Fiji aboard the Leonidas.
May 31 » Gilmore's Garden in New York City is renamed Madison Square Garden by William Henry Vanderbilt and is opened to the public at 26th Street and Madison Avenue.
September 18 » The Blackpool Illuminations are switched on for the first time.
October 21 » Thomas Edison applies for a patent for his design for an incandescent light bulb.
Day of death July 17, 1962
The temperature on July 17, 1962 was between 10.5 °C and 16.9 °C and averaged 13.8 °C. There was 0.5 hours of sunshine (3%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. Source: KNMI
January 15 » The Derveni papyrus, Europe's oldest surviving manuscript dating to 340 BC, is found in northern Greece.
March 2 » In Burma, the army led by General Ne Win seizes power in a coup d'état.
May 22 » Continental Airlines Flight 11 crashes after bombs explode on board.
June 7 » The Organisation Armée Secrète (OAS) sets fire to the University of Algiers library building, destroying about 500,000 books.
June 14 » The European Space Research Organisation is established in Paris – later becoming the European Space Agency.
July 11 » First transatlantic satellite television transmission.
Day of burial July 20, 1962
The temperature on July 20, 1962 was between 12.6 °C and 22.1 °C and averaged 16.8 °C. There was 3.2 mm of rain during 3.1 hours. There was 4.0 hours of sunshine (25%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. Source: KNMI
September 6 » Archaeologist Peter Marsden discovers the first of the Blackfriars Ships dating back to the second century AD in the Blackfriars area of the banks of the River Thames in London.
September 20 » James Meredith, an African American, is temporarily barred from entering the University of Mississippi.
October 9 » A visible light-emitting diode (LED) is first demonstrated in Syracuse, New York.
October 22 » Cuban Missile Crisis: President Kennedy, after internal counsel from Dwight D. Eisenhower, announces that American reconnaissance planes have discovered Soviet nuclear weapons in Cuba, and that he has ordered a naval "quarantine" of the Communist nation.
November 7 » Eleanor Roosevelt, wife and First Lady of the 32nd president of the United States Franklin D. Roosevelt, dies in her bed at her home in New York City.
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