The temperature on May 16, 1877 was about 14.3 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 78%. 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.
February 20 » Tchaikovsky's ballet Swan Lake receives its premiere at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow.
March 15 » First ever official cricket test match is played: Australia vs England at the MCG Stadium, in Melbourne, Australia.
April 12 » The United Kingdom annexes the Transvaal.
May 9 » Mihail Kogălniceanu reads, in the Chamber of Deputies, the Declaration of Independence of Romania. This day became the Independence Day of Romania.
June 20 » Alexander Graham Bell installs the world's first commercial telephone service in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
October 22 » The Blantyre mining disaster in Scotland kills 207 miners.
Day of marriage November 23, 1904
The average temperature on November 23, 1904 was 2.7 °C. There was 5.0 hours of sunshine (59%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
February 8 » Aceh War: Dutch Colonial Army's Marechaussee regiment led by General G.C.E. van Daalen launch military campaign to capture Gayo Highland, Alas Highland, and Batak Highland in Dutch East Indies' Northern Sumatra region, which ends with genocide to Acehnese and Bataks people.
April 8 » The French Third Republic and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland sign the Entente cordiale.
May 9 » The steam locomotive City of Truro becomes the first steam engine in Europe to exceed 100mph (160km/h).
June 16 » Eugen Schauman assassinates Nikolay Bobrikov, Governor-General of Finland.
June 16 » Irish author James Joyce begins a relationship with Nora Barnacle and subsequently uses the date to set the actions for his novel Ulysses; this date is now traditionally called "Bloomsday".
November 16 » English engineer John Ambrose Fleming receives a patent for the thermionic valve (vacuum tube).
Day of death April 16, 1960
The temperature on April 16, 1960 was between 0.2 °C and 9.5 °C and averaged 5.1 °C. There was 2.6 mm of rain during 0.7 hours. 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 north-northwest. Source: KNMI
February 16 » The U.S. Navy submarine USSTriton begins Operation Sandblast, setting sail from New London, Connecticut, to begin the first submerged circumnavigation of the globe.
April 4 » France agrees to grant independence to the Mali Federation, a union of Senegal and French Sudan.
July 4 » Due to the post-Independence Day admission of Hawaii as the 50th U.S. state on August 21, 1959, the 50-star flag of the United States debuts in Philadelphia, almost ten and a half months later (see Flag Acts (United States)).
July 11 » To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is first published, in the United States.
July 28 » The German Volkswagen Act came into force.
September 5 » Poet Léopold Sédar Senghor is the first elected President of Senegal.
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