The temperature on December 9, 1876 was about 6.9 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the north-northwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 88%. 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).
January 15 » The first newspaper in Afrikaans, Die Afrikaanse Patriot, is published in Paarl.
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.
April 22 » The first game in the history of the National League was played at the Jefferson Street Grounds in Philadelphia. This game is often pointed to as the beginning of Major League Baseball.
September 7 » In Northfield, Minnesota, Jesse James and the James–Younger Gang attempt to rob the town's bank but are driven off by armed citizens.
December 23 » First day of the Constantinople Conference which resulted in agreement for political reforms in the Balkans.
Day of marriage August 8, 1903
The temperature on August 8, 1903 was between 6.1 °C and 22.4 °C and averaged 15.9 °C. There was 15.1 hours of sunshine (100%). Source: KNMI
February 11 » Anton Bruckner's 9th Symphony receives its first performance in Vienna, Austria.
April 19 » The Kishinev pogrom in Kishinev (Bessarabia) begins, forcing tens of thousands of Jews to later seek refuge in Palestine and the Western world.
June 16 » Roald Amundsen leaves Oslo, Norway, to commence the first east–west navigation of the Northwest Passage.
August 3 » Macedonian rebels in Kruševo proclaim the Kruševo Republic, which exists for only ten days before Ottoman Turks lay waste to the town.
October 10 » The Women's Social and Political Union is founded in support of the enfranchisement of British women.
November 18 » The Hay–Bunau-Varilla Treaty is signed by the United States and Panama, giving the United States exclusive rights over the Panama Canal Zone.
Day of death March 20, 1961
The temperature on March 20, 1961 was between -0.9 °C and 7.3 °C and averaged 3.7 °C. There was 4.7 mm of rain during 5.7 hours. There was 0.8 hours of sunshine (7%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
January 25 » In Washington, D.C., President John F. Kennedy delivers the first live presidential television news conference.
February 14 » Discovery of the chemical elements: Element 103, Lawrencium, is first synthesized at the University of California.
June 23 » The Antarctic Treaty System, which sets aside Antarctica as a scientific preserve and limits military activity on the continent, its islands and ice shelves, comes into force.
July 20 » French military forces break the Tunisian siege of Bizerte.
July 23 » The Sandinista National Liberation Front is founded in Nicaragua.
October 20 » The Soviet Union performs the first armed test of a submarine-launched ballistic missile, launching an R-13 from a Golf-class submarine.
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