The temperature on November 6, 1871 was about 6.3 °C. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the east. The atmospheric humidity was 47%. Source: KNMI
From June 4, 1868 till January 4, 1871 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Bosse - Fock with the prime ministers Mr. P.P. van Bosse (liberaal) and Mr. C. Fock (liberaal).
In The Netherlands , there was from January 4, 1871 to July 6, 1872 the cabinet Thorbecke III, with Mr. J.R. Thorbecke (liberaal) as prime minister.
March 18 » Declaration of the Paris Commune; President of the French Republic, Adolphe Thiers, orders the evacuation of Paris.
March 21 » Otto von Bismarck is appointed as the first Chancellor of the German Empire.
March 29 » Royal Albert Hall is opened by Queen Victoria.
May 21 » Opening of the first rack railway in Europe, the Rigi Bahnen on Mount Rigi.
September 28 » The Brazilian Parliament passes a law that frees all children thereafter born to slaves, and all government-owned slaves.
December 26 » Thespis, the first Gilbert and Sullivan collaboration, debuts. It does modestly well, but the two would not collaborate again for four years and the score has been lost.
Day of death February 13, 1947
The temperature on February 13, 1947 was between -7.8 °C and -3.7 °C and averaged -6 °C. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
May 31 » Ferenc Nagy, the democratically elected Prime Minister of Hungary, resigns from office after blackmail from the Hungarian Communist Party accusing him of being part of a plot against the state. This grants the Communists effective control of the Hungarian government.
July 6 » The AK-47 goes into production in the Soviet Union.
October 20 » The House Un-American Activities Committee begins its investigation into Communist infiltration of the Hollywood film industry, resulting in a blacklist that prevents some from working in the industry for years.
October 22 » The Kashmir conflict between India and Pakistan begins, having started just after the partition of India.
November 18 » The Ballantyne's Department Store fire in Christchurch, New Zealand, kills 41; it is the worst fire disaster in the history of New Zealand.
November 25 » New Zealand ratifies the Statute of Westminster and thus becomes independent of legislative control by the United Kingdom.
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