February 4 » George Washington is unanimously elected as the first President of the United States by the U.S. Electoral College.
April 7 » Selim III became Sultan of the Ottoman Empire and Caliph of Islam.
August 26 » The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen is approved by the National Constituent Assembly of France.
September 2 » The United States Department of the Treasury is founded.
September 25 » The United States Congress passes twelve constitutional amendments: the ten known as the Bill of Rights, the (unratified) Congressional Apportionment Amendment, and the Congressional Compensation Amendment.
November 20 » New Jersey becomes the first U.S. state to ratify the Bill of Rights.
Christening day October 25, 1789
The temperature on October 25, 1789 was about 5.0 °C. Wind direction mainly east-northeast. Weather type: omtrent helder. Source: KNMI
April 30 » On the balcony of Federal Hall on Wall Street in New York City, George Washington takes the oath of office to become the first elected President of the United States.
July 10 » Alexander Mackenzie reaches the Mackenzie River delta.
August 28 » William Herschel discovers a new moon of Saturn: Enceladus.
October 3 » George Washington proclaims a Thanksgiving Day for that year.
October 6 » French Revolution: King Louis XVI is forced to change his residence from Versailles to the Tuileries Palace.
November 20 » New Jersey becomes the first U.S. state to ratify the Bill of Rights.
Day of death December 2, 1876
The temperature on December 2, 1876 was about 11.3 °C. There was 0.6 mm of rain. The air pressure was 26 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 74 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 96%. 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).
February 14 » Alexander Graham Bell applies for a patent for the telephone, as does Elisha Gray.
April 20 » The April Uprising begins. Its suppression shocks European opinion, and Bulgarian independence becomes a condition for ending the Russo-Turkish War.
June 25 » Battle of the Little Bighorn and the death of Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer.
August 1 » Colorado is admitted as the 38th U.S. state.
October 4 » The Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas opens as the first public college in Texas.
November 17 » Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's "Slavonic March" is given its premiere performance in Moscow, Russia.
1885 » Allen Wright, Principal chief of the Choctaw Nation (1866-1870); proposed the name "Oklahoma", from Choctaw words okra and umma, meaning "Territory of the Red People." (b. 1826)
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