The temperature on September 20, 1876 was about 15.9 °C. The air pressure was 4 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the west-northwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 55%. 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).
February 14 » Alexander Graham Bell applies for a patent for the telephone, as does Elisha Gray.
February 26 » Japan and Korea sign a treaty granting Japanese citizens extraterritoriality rights, opening three ports to Japanese trade, and ending Korea's status as a tributary state of Qing dynasty China.
March 10 » The first successful test of a telephone is made by Alexander Graham Bell.
May 10 » The Centennial Exposition is opened in Philadelphia.
June 25 » Battle of the Little Bighorn and the death of Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer.
August 1 » Colorado is admitted as the 38th U.S. state.
Day of death June 21, 1953
The temperature on June 21, 1953 was between 14.0 °C and 27.8 °C and averaged 21.6 °C. There was 12.4 hours of sunshine (74%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east. Source: KNMI
March 3 » A De Havilland Comet (Canadian Pacific Air Lines) crashes in Karachi, Pakistan, killing 11.
April 8 » Mau Mau leader Jomo Kenyatta is convicted by British Kenya's rulers.
April 24 » Winston Churchill is knighted by Queen Elizabeth II.
August 12 » The 7.2 Ms Ionian earthquake shakes the southern Ionian Islands with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme). Between 445 and 800 people are killed.
September 7 » Nikita Khrushchev is elected first secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
September 21 » Lieutenant No Kum-sok, a North Korean pilot, defects to South Korea with his jet fighter.
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