The temperature on April 14, 1878 was about 13.1 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the south-southeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 74%. 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 28 » Yale Daily News becomes the first independent daily college newspaper in the United States.
February 19 » Thomas Edison patents the phonograph.
February 21 » The first telephone directory is issued in New Haven, Connecticut.
June 10 » League of Prizren is established, to oppose the decisions of the Congress of Berlin and the Treaty of San Stefano, as a consequence of which the Albanian lands in the Balkans were being partitioned and given to the neighbor states of Serbia, Montenegro, Bulgaria, and Greece.
October 22 » The Bramall Lane stadium sees the first rugby match played under floodlights.
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 April 30, 1958
The temperature on April 30, 1958 was between 8.0 °C and 19.2 °C and averaged 13.0 °C. There was 6.6 hours of sunshine (45%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest. Source: KNMI
January 1 » European Economic Community is established.
February 21 » The CND symbol, aka peace symbol, commissioned by the Direct Action Committee in protest against the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment, is designed and completed by Gerald Holtom.
February 22 » Egypt and Syria join to form the United Arab Republic.
March 27 » Nikita Khrushchev becomes Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union.
May 15 » The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 3.
August 18 » Vladimir Nabokov's controversial novel Lolita is published in the United States.
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