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.
March 4 » Britain's first electric trams run in east London.
May 6 » The United States Congress passes the Chinese Exclusion Act.
July 10 » War of the Pacific: Chile suffers its last military defeat in the Battle of La Concepción when a garrison of 77 men is annihilated by a 1,300-strong Peruvian force, many of them armed with spears.
July 26 » Premiere of Richard Wagner's opera Parsifal at Bayreuth.
September 13 » Anglo-Egyptian War: The Battle of Tel el-Kebir is fought.
September 30 » Thomas Edison's first commercial hydroelectric power plant (later known as Appleton Edison Light Company) begins operation.
Day of death April 16, 1957
The temperature on April 16, 1957 was between 4.5 °C and 14.4 °C and averaged 9.0 °C. There was 6.9 hours of sunshine (50%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
January 31 » Eight people (5 total crew from 2 aircraft and 3 on the ground) in Pacoima, California are killed following the mid-air collision between a Douglas DC-7 airliner and a Northrop F-89 Scorpion fighter jet.
March 6 » Ghana becomes the first Sub-Saharan country to gain independence from the British.
March 9 » The 8.6 Mw Andreanof Islands earthquake shakes the Aleutian Islands, causing over $5 million in damage from ground movement and a destructive tsunami.
April 5 » In India, Communists win the first elections in united Kerala and E. M. S. Namboodiripad is sworn in as the first Chief Minister.
April 30 » Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery entered into force.
May 3 » Walter O'Malley, the owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers, agrees to move the team from Brooklyn to Los Angeles.
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