The temperature on March 24, 1876 was about 10.5 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the southwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 50%. 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".
March 10 » The first successful test of a telephone is made by Alexander Graham Bell.
April 17 » Catalpa rescue: The rescue of six Fenian prisoners from Fremantle Prison in Western Australia.
April 20 » The April Uprising begins. Its suppression shocks European opinion, and Bulgarian independence becomes a condition for ending the Russo-Turkish War.
May 30 » Ottoman sultan Abdülaziz is deposed and succeeded by his nephew Murad V.
October 4 » The Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas opens as the first public college in Texas.
Day of marriage December 18, 1902
The temperature on December 18, 1902 was between 2.3 °C and 8.5 °C and averaged 5.4 °C. Source: KNMI
January 28 » The Carnegie Institution of Washington is founded in Washington, D.C. with a $10 million gift from Andrew Carnegie.
January 30 » The first Anglo-Japanese Alliance is signed in London.
April 2 » Dmitry Sipyagin, Minister of Interior of the Russian Empire, is assassinated in the Marie Palace, Saint Petersburg.
April 18 » The 7.5 Mw Guatemala earthquake shakes Guatemala with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe), killing between 800–2,000.
April 20 » Pierre and Marie Curie refine radium chloride.
July 17 » Willis Carrier creates the first air conditioner in Buffalo, New York.
Day of death April 11, 1960
The temperature on April 11, 1960 was between 6.4 °C and 10.4 °C and averaged 8.5 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 0.5 hours. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
February 1 » Four black students stage the first of the Greensboro sit-ins at a lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina.
March 21 » Apartheid: Sharpeville massacre, South Africa: Police open fire on a group of black South African demonstrators, killing 69 and wounding 180.
August 15 » Republic of the Congo (Brazzaville) becomes independent from France.
August 20 » Senegal breaks from the Mali Federation, declaring its independence.
December 1 » Paul McCartney and Pete Best are arrested (and later deported) from Hamburg, West Germany, after accusations of attempted arson.
December 11 » French forces crack down in a violent clash with protesters in French Algeria during a visit by French President Charles de Gaulle.
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