The temperature on February 20, 1877 was about 2.0 °C. There was 4 mm of rain. The air pressure was 13 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the south. The airpressure was 74 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 93%. 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.
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.
June 17 » American Indian Wars: Battle of White Bird Canyon: The Nez Perce defeat the U.S. Cavalry at White Bird Canyon in the Idaho Territory.
July 14 » The Great Railroad Strike of 1877 began in Martinsburg, West Virginia, when wages of Baltimore and Ohio Railroad workers were cut for the third time in a year. The strike was ended on Sept 4 by local and state militias, and federal troops.
July 21 » After rioting by Baltimore and Ohio Railroad workers and the deaths of nine rail workers at the hands of the Maryland militia, workers in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, stage a sympathy strike that is met with an assault by the state militia.
November 21 » Thomas Edison announces his invention of the phonograph, a machine that can record and play sound.
November 24 » Anna Sewell's animal welfare novel Black Beauty is published.
Day of marriage October 20, 1897
The temperature on October 20, 1897 was about 6.8 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 100%. Source: KNMI
January 31 » Czechoslav Trade Union Association is founded in Prague.
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 11 » Salomon August Andrée leaves Spitsbergen to attempt to reach the North Pole by balloon. He later crashes and dies.
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).
December 6 » London becomes the world's first city to host licensed taxicabs.
Day of death December 11, 1944
The temperature on December 11, 1944 was between 1.1 °C and 6.0 °C and averaged 3.9 °C. There was 4.2 mm of rain during 3.6 hours. There was 0.7 hours of sunshine (9%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from July 27, 1941 to February 23, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy II, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
June 26 » World War II: The Battle of Osuchy in Osuchy, Poland, one of the largest battles between Nazi Germany and Polish resistance forces, ends with the defeat of the latter.
July 20 » World War II: Adolf Hitler survives an assassination attempt led by German Army Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg.
August 1 » World War II: The Warsaw Uprising against the Nazi German occupation breaks out in Warsaw, Poland.
August 20 » World War II: One hundred sixty-eight captured allied airmen, including Phil Lamason, accused by the Gestapo of being "terror fliers", arrive at Buchenwald concentration camp.
October 25 » Second World War: The USSTang under Richard O'Kane (the top American submarine ace of the war) is sunk by the ship's own malfunctioning torpedo.
December 31 » World War II: Hungary declares war on Nazi Germany.
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