The temperature on December 3, 1879 was about -6.4 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain. The air pressure was 15 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 90%. 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.
In The Netherlands , there was from August 20, 1879 to April 23, 1883 the cabinet Van Lijnden van Sandenburg, with Mr. C.Th. baron Van Lijnden van Sandenburg (conservatief-AR) as prime minister.
January 23 » Anglo-Zulu War: the Battle of Rorke's Drift ends.
April 5 » Chile declares war on Bolivia and Peru, starting the War of the Pacific.
April 23 » Fire burns down the second main building and dome of the University of Notre Dame, which prompts the construction of the third, and current, Main Building with its golden dome.
October 15 » The Segura river in southeastern Spain floods, killing 1077 people.
October 21 » Thomas Edison applies for a patent for his design for an incandescent light bulb.
December 31 » Thomas Edison demonstrates incandescent lighting to the public for the first time, in Menlo Park, New Jersey.
Day of marriage May 10, 1901
The temperature on May 10, 1901 was between 4.0 °C and 16.5 °C and averaged 9.6 °C. There was 7.6 hours of sunshine (49%). Source: KNMI
August 21 » Six hundred American school teachers, Thomasites, arrived in Manila on the USAT Thomas.
August 28 » Silliman University is founded in the Philippines. It is the first American private school in the country.
September 17 » Second Boer War: A Boer column defeats a British force at the Battle of Blood River Poort.
September 17 » Second Boer War: Boers capture a squadron of the 17th Lancers at the Battle of Elands River.
September 28 » Philippine–American War: Filipino guerrillas kill more than forty American soldiers while losing 28 of their own.
October 12 » President Theodore Roosevelt officially renames the "Executive Mansion" to the White House.
Day of death March 10, 1947
The temperature on March 10, 1947 was between -2.5 °C and 1.5 °C and averaged 0.4 °C. There was 9.9 mm of rain during 5.3 hours. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the south east. Source: KNMI
January 1 » Cold War: The American and British occupation zones in Allied-occupied Germany, after World War II, merge to form the Bizone, which later (with the French zone) became part of West Germany.
February 25 » The formal abolition of Prussia is proclaimed by the Allied Control Council, the Prussian government having already been abolished by the Preußenschlag of 1932.
April 9 » The Glazier–Higgins–Woodward tornadoes kill 181 and injure 970 in Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas.
April 28 » Thor Heyerdahl and five crew mates set out from Peru on the Kon-Tiki to demonstrate that Peruvian natives could have settled Polynesia.
July 10 » Muhammad Ali Jinnah is recommended as the first Governor-General of Pakistan by the British Prime Minister, Clement Attlee.
September 15 » Typhoon Kathleen hit the Kantō region in Japan killing 1,077.
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