The temperature on January 14, 1878 was about 6.6 °C. There was 1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 25 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 94%. 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.
February 21 » The first telephone directory is issued in New Haven, Connecticut.
February 22 » In Utica, New York, Frank Woolworth opens the first of many of five-and-dime Woolworth stores.
March 15 » Restoration of the Scottish Catholic hierarchy, broken off back in 1603.
March 24 » The British frigate HMSEurydice sinks, killing more than 300.
July 13 » Treaty of Berlin: The European powers redraw the map of the Balkans. Serbia, Montenegro and Romania become completely independent of the Ottoman Empire.
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 May 19, 1897
The temperature on May 19, 1897 was about 14.9 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 75%. Source: KNMI
June 22 » British colonial officers Charles Walter Rand and Lt. Charles Egerton Ayerst are assassinated in Pune, Maharashtra, India by the Chapekar brothers and Mahadeo Vinayak Ranade, who are later caught and hanged.
July 26 » Anglo-Afghan War: The Pashtun fakir Saidullah leads an army of more than 10,000 to begin a siege of the British garrison in the Malakand Agency of the North West Frontier Province of India.
August 10 » German chemist Felix Hoffmann discovers an improved way of synthesizing acetylsalicylic acid (aspirin).
August 21 » Oldsmobile, an American automobile manufacturer and marque, is founded.
August 31 » Thomas Edison patents the Kinetoscope, the first movie projector.
September 10 » Lattimer massacre: A sheriff's posse kills 19 unarmed striking immigrant miners in Lattimer, Pennsylvania, United States.
Day of death April 11, 1953
The temperature on April 11, 1953 was between 0.2 °C and 16.0 °C and averaged 8.4 °C. There was 8.4 hours of sunshine (62%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
January 5 » The play Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett receives its première in Paris.
January 31 » A North Sea flood causes over 1,800 deaths in the Netherlands and over 300 in the United Kingdom.
February 28 » James Watson and Francis Crick announce to friends that they have determined the chemical structure of DNA; the formal announcement takes place on April 25 following publication in April's Nature (pub. April 2).
June 17 » Cold War: East Germany Workers Uprising: In East Germany, the Soviet Union orders a division of troops into East Berlin to quell a rebellion.
September 7 » Nikita Khrushchev is elected first secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
November 17 » The remaining human inhabitants of the Blasket Islands, Kerry, Ireland, are evacuated to the mainland.
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