The temperature on September 7, 1873 was about 13.9 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 7 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 75%. Source: KNMI
From July 6, 1872 till August 27, 1874 the Netherlands had a cabinet De Vries - Fransen van de Putte with the prime ministers Mr. G. de Vries Azn. (liberaal) and I.D. Fransen van de Putte (liberaal).
March 3 » Censorship in the United States: The U.S. Congress enacts the Comstock Law, making it illegal to send any "obscene literature and articles of immoral use" through the mail.
March 22 » The Spanish National Assembly abolishes slavery in Puerto Rico.
May 9 » Der Krach: Vienna stock market crash heralds the Long Depression.
August 2 » The Clay Street Hill Railroad begins operating the first cable car in San Francisco's famous cable car system.
August 23 » Albert Bridge in Chelsea, London opens.
September 18 » The bank Jay Cooke & Company declares bankruptcy, contributing to the Panic of 1873.
Day of death July 31, 1958
The temperature on July 31, 1958 was between 11.6 °C and 21.3 °C and averaged 16.5 °C. There was 9.0 hours of sunshine (58%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
February 5 » Gamal Abdel Nasser is nominated to be the first president of the United Arab Republic.
March 27 » Nikita Khrushchev becomes Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union.
April 5 » Ripple Rock, an underwater threat to navigation in the Seymour Narrows in Canada is destroyed in one of the largest non-nuclear controlled explosions of the time.
May 13 » Ben Carlin becomes the first (and only) person to circumnavigate the world by amphibious vehicle, having travelled over 17,000 kilometres (11,000mi) by sea and 62,000 kilometres (39,000mi) by land during a ten-year journey.
December 1 » The Central African Republic attains self-rule within the French Union.
December 9 » The John Birch Society is founded in the United States.
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