The temperature on November 3, 1878 was about 9.2 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the northwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 71%. 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.
March 3 » The Russo-Turkish War ends with Bulgaria regaining its independence from the Ottoman Empire according to the Treaty of San Stefano.
May 14 » The last witchcraft trial held in the United States begins in Salem, Massachusetts, after Lucretia Brown, an adherent of Christian Science, accused Daniel Spofford of attempting to harm her through his mental powers.
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 marriage May 17, 1900
The temperature on May 17, 1900 was about 13.0 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 62%. Source: KNMI
February 14 » British forces begin the Battle of the Tugela Heights in an effort to lift the Siege of Ladysmith.
June 17 » Boxer Rebellion: Western Allied and Japanese forces capture the Taku Forts in Tianjin, China.
June 18 » Empress Dowager Cixi of China orders all foreigners killed, including foreign diplomats and their families.
June 21 » Boxer Rebellion. China formally declares war on the United States, Britain, Germany, France and Japan, as an edict issued from the Empress Dowager Cixi.
August 3 » The Firestone Tire and Rubber Company is founded.
October 19 » Max Planck discovers Planck's law of black-body radiation.
Day of death October 3, 1962
The temperature on October 3, 1962 was between 14.0 °C and 18.2 °C and averaged 15.9 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 0.1 hours. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
January 3 » Pope John XXIII excommunicates Fidel Castro.
March 18 » The Évian Accords end the Algerian War of Independence, which had begun in 1954.
August 7 » Canadian-born American pharmacologist Frances Oldham Kelsey awarded the U.S. President's Award for Distinguished Federal Civilian Service for her refusal to authorize thalidomide.
August 31 » Trinidad and Tobago becomes independent.
September 8 » Last run of the famous Pines Express over the Somerset and Dorset Railway line (UK) fittingly using the last steam locomotive built by British Railways, BR Standard Class 9F 92220 Evening Star.
December 11 » Arthur Lucas, convicted of murder, is the last person to be executed in Canada.
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