The temperature on February 20, 1878 was about 1.4 °C. The air pressure was 3 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the south-southeast. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 96%. 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 16 » Russo-Turkish War (1877–78): Battle of Philippopolis: Captain Aleksandr Burago with a squadron of Russian Imperial army dragoons liberates Plovdiv from Ottoman rule.
March 15 » Restoration of the Scottish Catholic hierarchy, broken off back in 1603.
June 15 » Eadweard Muybridge takes a series of photographs to prove that all four feet of a horse leave the ground when it runs; the study becomes the basis of motion pictures.
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.
October 15 » The Edison Electric Light Company begins operation.
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 13, 1899
The temperature on May 13, 1899 was about 11.3 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 79%. Source: KNMI
January 17 » The United States takes possession of Wake Island in the Pacific Ocean.
February 14 » Voting machines are approved by the U.S. Congress for use in federal elections.
March 27 » Emilio Aguinaldo leads Filipino forces for the only time during the Philippine–American War at the Battle of Marilao River.
May 8 » The Irish Literary Theatre in Dublin produced its first play.
July 11 » Fiat founded by Giovanni Agnelli in Turin, Italy.
July 17 » NEC Corporation is organized as the first Japanese joint venture with foreign capital.
Day of death November 27, 1965
The average temperature on November 27, 1965 was 2.4 °C. There was 10.2 mm of rain during 8.1 hours. There was 1.0 hours of sunshine (12%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
March 6 » Premier Tom Playford of South Australia loses power after 27 years in office.
March 21 » Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. leads 3,200 people on the start of the third and finally successful civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama.
July 16 » South Vietnamese Colonel Phạm Ngọc Thảo, a formerly undetected communist spy and double agent, is hunted down and killed by unknown individuals after being sentenced to death in absentia for a February 1965 coup attempt against Nguyễn Khánh.
August 5 » The Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 begins as Pakistani soldiers cross the Line of Control dressed as locals.
September 21 » The Gambia, Maldives and Singapore are admitted as members of the United Nations.
December 21 » International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination is adopted.
Day of burial December 1, 1965
The temperature on December 1, 1965 was between 2.8 °C and 6.7 °C and averaged 4.3 °C. There was 5.5 mm of rain during 1.8 hours. There was 2.3 hours of sunshine (28%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. Source: KNMI
February 21 » Malcolm X is assassinated while giving a talk at the Audubon Ballroom in Harlem.
April 28 » United States occupation of the Dominican Republic: American troops land in the Dominican Republic to "forestall establishment of a Communist dictatorship" and to evacuate U.S. Army troops.
May 1 » Cross-Strait relations: Battle of Dong-Yin, a naval conflict between the Republic of China and the People's Republic of China, takes place.
July 28 » Vietnam War: U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson announces his order to increase the number of United States troops in South Vietnam from 75,000 to 125,000.
September 20 » Following the Battle of Burki, the Indian Army captures Dograi in course of the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965.
December 22 » In the United Kingdom, a 70mph speed limit is applied to all rural roads including motorways for the first time.
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