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.
February 19 » Thomas Edison patents the phonograph.
July 1 » Canada joins the Universal Postal Union.
September 3 » Over 640 die when the crowded pleasure boat Princess Alice collides with the Bywell Castle in the River Thames.
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.
December 31 » Karl Benz, working in Mannheim, Germany, filed for a patent on his first reliable two-stroke gas engine, and he was granted the patent in 1879.
Day of marriage July 7, 1900
The temperature on July 7, 1900 was about 13.6 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 82%. Source: KNMI
February 18 » Second Boer War: Imperial forces suffer their worst single-day loss of life on Bloody Sunday, the first day of the Battle of Paardeberg.
May 1 » The Scofield Mine disaster kills over 200 men in Scofield, Utah in what is to date the fifth-worst mining accident in United States history.
May 24 » Second Boer War: The United Kingdom annexes the Orange Free State.
June 20 » Baron Eduard Toll, leader of the Russian Polar Expedition of 1900, departs Saint Petersburg in Russia on the explorer ship Zarya, never to return.
July 9 » The Governor of Shanxi province in North China orders the execution of 45 foreign Christian missionaries and local church members, including children.
September 8 » Galveston hurricane: A powerful hurricane hits Galveston, Texas killing about 8,000 people.
Day of death October 12, 1953
The temperature on October 12, 1953 was between 3.8 °C and 17.6 °C and averaged 10.9 °C. There was 7.8 hours of sunshine (71%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. Source: KNMI
January 31 » A North Sea flood causes over 1,800 deaths in the Netherlands and over 300 in the United Kingdom.
April 13 » CIA director Allen Dulles launches the mind-control program Project MKUltra.
April 24 » Winston Churchill is knighted by Queen Elizabeth II.
September 13 » Nikita Khrushchev is appointed General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
December 6 » Vladimir Nabokov completes his controversial novel Lolita.
December 8 » U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower delivers his "Atoms for Peace" speech, which leads to an American program to supply equipment and information on nuclear power to schools, hospitals, and research institutions around the world.
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