The temperature on March 7, 1878 was about 9.3 °C. There was 2 mm of rain. The air pressure was 26 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 86%. 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.
January 4 » Russo-Turkish War (1877–78): Sofia is liberated from Ottoman rule and designated the capital of Liberated Bulgaria.
February 19 » Thomas Edison patents the phonograph.
May 25 » Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera H.M.S. Pinafore opens at the Opera Comique in London.
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.
September 1 » Emma Nutt becomes the world's first female telephone operator when she is recruited by Alexander Graham Bell to the Boston Telephone Dispatch Company.
December 31 » Karl Benz, working in Mannheim, Germany, filed for a patent on his first reliable two-stroke gas engine, and he was granted the patent in 1879.
Day of death July 25, 1965
The temperature on July 25, 1965 was between 10.1 °C and 18.5 °C and averaged 15.3 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain during 0.2 hours. There was 9.2 hours of sunshine (58%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
March 24 » Images from the Ranger 9 lunar probe are broadcast live on network television.
April 4 » The first model of the new Saab Viggen fighter aircraft is unveiled.
August 1 » Frank Herbert's novel, Dune was published for the first time. It was named as the world's best-selling science fiction novel in 2003.
September 6 » India retaliates following Pakistan's Operation Grand Slam which results in the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 that ends in a stalemate followed by the signing of the Tashkent Declaration.
September 9 » The United States Department of Housing and Urban Development is established.
December 9 » A Charlie Brown Christmas, first in a series of Peanuts television specials, debuts on CBS.
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