The temperature on February 29, 1876 was about 10.3 °C. There was 5 mm of rain. The air pressure was 21 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 76 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).
March 7 » Alexander Graham Bell is granted a patent for an invention he calls the "telephone".
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.
May 10 » The Centennial Exposition is opened in Philadelphia.
July 8 » The Hamburg massacre prior to the 1876 United States presidential election results in the deaths of six African-Americans of the Republican Party, along with one white assailant.
August 31 » Ottoman Sultan Murad V is deposed and succeeded by his brother Abdul Hamid II.
December 29 » The Ashtabula River railroad disaster occurs, leaving 64 injured and 92 dead at Ashtabula, Ohio.
Day of marriage November 22, 1900
The temperature on November 22, 1900 was about 7.9 °C. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 88%. Source: KNMI
January 24 » Second Boer War: Boers stop a British attempt to break the Siege of Ladysmith in the Battle of Spion Kop.
March 7 » The German liner SSKaiser Wilhelm der Grosse becomes the first ship to send wireless signals to shore.
April 15 » Philippine–American War: Filipino guerrillas launch a surprise attack on U.S. infantry and begin a four-day siege of Catubig, Philippines.
April 30 » Hawaii becomes a territory of the United States, with Sanford B. Dole as governor.
November 7 » Second Boer War: Battle of Leliefontein, a battle during which the Royal Canadian Dragoons win three Victoria Crosses.
December 14 » Quantum mechanics: Max Planck presents a theoretical derivation of his black-body radiation law.
Day of death January 7, 1970
The temperature on January 7, 1970 was between -7.5 °C and 0.1 °C and averaged -4.1 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 3.1 hours of sunshine (39%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east. Source: KNMI
January 22 » The Boeing 747, the world's first "jumbo jet", enters commercial service for launch customer Pan American Airways with its maiden voyage from John F. Kennedy International Airport to London Heathrow Airport.
March 6 » An explosion at the Weather Underground safe house in Greenwich Village kills three.
April 11 » Apollo 13 is launched.
May 1 » Vietnam War: Protests erupt following the announcement by Richard Nixon that the U.S. and South Vietnamese forces would attack Vietnamese communists in a Cambodian Campaign.
May 26 » The Soviet Tupolev Tu-144 becomes the first commercial transport to exceed Mach 2.
September 6 » Two passenger jets bound from Europe to New York are simultaneously hijacked by Palestinian terrorist members of the PFLP and taken to Dawson's Field, Jordan.
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