The temperature on August 26, 1877 was about 17.0 °C. There was 9 mm of rain. The air pressure was 19 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 91%. 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.
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.
April 24 » Russo-Turkish War: Russian Empire declares war on Ottoman Empire.
May 5 » American Indian Wars: Sitting Bull leads his band of Lakota into Canada to avoid harassment by the United States Army under Colonel Nelson Miles.
May 9 » Mihail Kogălniceanu reads, in the Chamber of Deputies, the Declaration of Independence of Romania. This day became the Independence Day of Romania.
November 24 » Anna Sewell's animal welfare novel Black Beauty is published.
Day of death July 20, 1958
The temperature on July 20, 1958 was between 15.4 °C and 24.0 °C and averaged 17.6 °C. There was 7.1 mm of rain during 2.6 hours. There was 5.1 hours of sunshine (32%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
January 1 » European Economic Community is established.
January 13 » The Moroccan Army of Liberation ambushes a Spanish patrol in the Battle of Edchera.
July 7 » US President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the Alaska Statehood Act into law.
August 29 » United States Air Force Academy opens in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
December 5 » Subscriber Trunk Dialling (STD) is inaugurated in the United Kingdom by Queen Elizabeth II when she speaks to the Lord Provost in a call from Bristol to Edinburgh.
December 28 » "Greatest Game Ever Played": Baltimore Colts defeat the New York Giants in the first ever National Football League sudden death overtime game at New York's Yankee Stadium.
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