The temperature on December 11, 1867 was about 6.9 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. The air pressure was 10 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the west-northwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 94%. Source: KNMI
From June 1, 1866 till June 4, 1868 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt - Heemskerk with the prime ministers Mr. J.P.J.A. graaf Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt (AR) and Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief).
March 30 » Alaska is purchased from Russia for $7.2 million, about 2-cent/acre ($4.19/km²), by United States Secretary of State William H. Seward.
May 3 » The Hudson's Bay Company gives up all claims to Vancouver Island.
May 15 » Canadian Bank of Commerce opens for business in Toronto, Ontario. The bank would later merge with Imperial Bank of Canada to become what is CIBC in 1961.
September 28 » Toronto becomes the capital of Ontario, having also been the capital of Ontario's predecessors since 1796.
December 2 » At Tremont Temple in Boston, British author Charles Dickens gives his first public reading in the United States.
December 4 » Former Minnesota farmer Oliver Hudson Kelley founds the Order of the Patrons of Husbandry (better known today as the Grange).
Day of marriage March 9, 1889
The temperature on March 9, 1889 was about 4.7 °C. The air pressure was 86 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the south-southeast. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 74%. Source: KNMI
January 8 » Herman Hollerith is issued US patent #395,791 for the 'Art of Applying Statistics' — his punched card calculator.
April 1 » The University of Northern Colorado was established, as the Colorado State Normal School.
May 11 » An attack upon a U.S. Army paymaster and escort results in the theft of over $28,000 and the award of two Medals of Honor.
May 31 » Johnstown Flood: Over 2,200 people die after a dam fails and sends a 60-foot (18-meter) wall of water over the town of Johnstown, Pennsylvania.
June 29 » Hyde Park and several other Illinois townships vote to be annexed by Chicago, forming the largest United States city in area and second largest in population at the time.
September 28 » The General Conference on Weights and Measures (CGPM) defines the length of a meter.
Day of death March 5, 1961
The temperature on March 5, 1961 was between -1.1 °C and 14.0 °C and averaged 5.7 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 6.9 hours of sunshine (62%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
February 13 » An allegedly 500,000-year-old rock is discovered near Olancha, California, US, that appears to anachronistically encase a spark plug.
April 12 » Cold War: Space Race: The Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becomes the first human to travel into outer space and perform the first manned orbital flight, Vostok 1.
June 23 » The Antarctic Treaty System, which sets aside Antarctica as a scientific preserve and limits military activity on the continent, its islands and ice shelves, comes into force.
September 12 » The African and Malagasy Union is founded.
November 29 » Project Mercury: Mercury-Atlas 5 Mission: Enos, a chimpanzee, is launched into space. The spacecraft orbits the Earth twice and splashes down off the coast of Puerto Rico.
December 19 » India annexes Daman and Diu, part of Portuguese India.
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