The temperature on March 7, 1878 was about 9.3 °C. There was 2 mm of rain. The air pressure was 26 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 86%. 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.
January 4 » Russo-Turkish War (1877–78): Sofia is liberated from Ottoman rule and designated the capital of Liberated Bulgaria.
June 15 » Eadweard Muybridge takes a series of photographs to prove that all four feet of a horse leave the ground when it runs; the study becomes the basis of motion pictures.
July 1 » Canada joins the Universal Postal Union.
September 1 » Emma Nutt becomes the world's first female telephone operator when she is recruited by Alexander Graham Bell to the Boston Telephone Dispatch Company.
October 22 » The Bramall Lane stadium sees the first rugby match played under floodlights.
November 17 » First assassination attempt against Umberto I of Italy by anarchist Giovanni Passannante, who was armed with a dagger. The King survived with a slight wound in an arm. Prime Minister Benedetto Cairoli blocked the aggressor, receiving an injury in a leg.
Day of marriage September 28, 1905
The temperature on September 28, 1905 was between 5.3 °C and 18.0 °C and averaged 11.2 °C. There was 7.8 hours of sunshine (66%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from August 1, 1901 to August 16, 1905 the cabinet Kuijper, with Dr. A. Kuijper (AR) as prime minister.
In The Netherlands , there was from August 17, 1905 to February 11, 1908 the cabinet De Meester, with Mr. Th. de Meester (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
May 28 » Russo-Japanese War: The Battle of Tsushima ends with the destruction of the Russian Baltic Fleet by Admiral Tōgō Heihachirō and the Imperial Japanese Navy.
August 20 » Sun Yat-sen, Chinese revolutionary, forms the first chapter of T'ung Meng Hui, a union of all secret societies determined to bringing down the Manchus.
September 5 » Russo-Japanese War: In New Hampshire, United States, the Treaty of Portsmouth, mediated by U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt, ends the war.
November 18 » Prince Carl of Denmark becomes King Haakon VII of Norway.
November 21 » Albert Einstein's paper that leads to the mass–energy equivalence formula, E=mc², is published in the journal Annalen der Physik.
December 15 » The Pushkin House is established in Saint Petersburg, Russia, to preserve the cultural heritage of Alexander Pushkin.
Day of death February 12, 1963
The temperature on February 12, 1963 was between -1.5 °C and 0.3 °C and averaged -0.5 °C. There was 7.9 mm of rain during 20.9 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north. Source: KNMI
January 23 » The Guinea-Bissau War of Independence officially begins when PAIGC guerrilla fighters attack the Portuguese army stationed in Tite.
April 11 » Pope John XXIII issues Pacem in terris, the first encyclical addressed to all Christians instead of only Catholics, and which described the conditions for world peace in human terms.
May 22 » Greek left-wing politician Grigoris Lambrakis is shot in an assassination attempt, and dies five days later.
June 12 » NAACP field secretary Medgar Evers is murdered in front of his home in Jackson, Mississippi by Ku Klux Klan member Byron De La Beckwith during the civil rights movement.
July 1 » The British Government admits that former diplomat Kim Philby had worked as a Soviet agent.
August 15 » President Fulbert Youlou is overthrown in the Republic of the Congo, after a three-day uprising in the capital.
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