The temperature on April 16, 1877 was about 3.3 °C. The air pressure was 16 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the east. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 53%. 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 9 » Mihail Kogălniceanu reads, in the Chamber of Deputies, the Declaration of Independence of Romania. This day became the Independence Day of Romania.
May 16 » The 16 May 1877 crisis occurs in France, ending with the dissolution of the National Assembly 22 June and affirming the interpretation of the Constitution of 1875 as a parliamentary rather than presidential system. The elections held in October 1877 led to the defeat of the royalists as a formal political movement in France.
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.
October 5 » The Nez Perce War in the northwestern United States comes to an end.
November 24 » Anna Sewell's animal welfare novel Black Beauty is published.
November 29 » Thomas Edison demonstrates his phonograph for the first time.
Day of death February 6, 1954
The temperature on February 6, 1954 was between -10.2 °C and 0.1 °C and averaged -6.2 °C. There was 5.6 hours of sunshine (60%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east. Source: KNMI
January 7 » Georgetown-IBM experiment: The first public demonstration of a machine translation system is held in New York at the head office of IBM.
February 10 » U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower warns against United States intervention in Vietnam.
February 23 » The first mass inoculation of children against polio with the Salk vaccine begins in Pittsburgh.
May 6 » Roger Bannister becomes the first person to run the mile in under four minutes.
August 24 » The Communist Control Act goes into effect, outlawing the American Communist Party.
November 10 » U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower dedicates the USMC War Memorial (Iwo Jima memorial) in Arlington Ridge Park in Arlington County, Virginia.
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