The temperature on October 4, 1879 was about 14.2 °C. The air pressure was 7 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 90%. 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.
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.
April 18 » The 7.5 Mw Guatemala earthquake shakes Guatemala with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe), killing between 800–2,000.
April 20 » Pierre and Marie Curie refine radium chloride.
May 31 » Second Boer War: The Treaty of Vereeniging ends the war and ensures British control of South Africa.
July 17 » Willis Carrier creates the first air conditioner in Buffalo, New York.
August 9 » Edward VII and Alexandra of Denmark are crowned King and Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
November 21 » The Philadelphia Football Athletics defeated the Kanaweola Athletic Club of Elmira, New York, 39–0, in the first ever professional American football night game.
Day of death April 21, 1953
The temperature on April 21, 1953 was between 2.9 °C and 19.2 °C and averaged 11.3 °C. There was 13.3 hours of sunshine (93%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. Source: KNMI
January 5 » The play Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett receives its première in Paris.
January 14 » Josip Broz Tito is inaugurated as the first President of Yugoslavia.
March 6 » Georgy Malenkov succeeds Joseph Stalin as Premier of the Soviet Union and First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
March 18 » An earthquake hits western Turkey, killing 265 people.
June 30 » The first Chevrolet Corvette rolls off the assembly line in Flint, Michigan.
November 9 » Cambodia gains independence from France.
Day of burial April 24, 1953
The temperature on April 24, 1953 was between 4.6 °C and 15.2 °C and averaged 8.5 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 8.3 hours of sunshine (57%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north. Source: KNMI
January 19 » Almost 72 percent of all television sets in the United States are tuned into I Love Lucy to watch Lucy give birth.
January 20 » Dwight D. Eisenhower is inaugurated as the 34th President of the United States of America.
June 18 » The Egyptian revolution of 1952 ends with the overthrow of the Muhammad Ali dynasty and the declaration of the Republic of Egypt.
July 26 » Arizona Governor John Howard Pyle orders an anti-polygamy law enforcement crackdown on residents of Short Creek, Arizona, which becomes known as the Short Creek raid.
October 1 » Andhra State is formed, consisting of a Telugu-speaking area carved out of India's Madras State.
December 10 » British Prime Minister Winston Churchill receives the Nobel Prize in literature.
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