The temperature on February 16, 1869 was about 6.0 °C. The air pressure was 6 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the southwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 75%. 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).
April 17 » Morelos is admitted as the 27th state of Mexico.
May 10 » The First Transcontinental Railroad, linking the eastern and western United States, is completed at Promontory Summit, Utah with the golden spike.
May 26 » Boston University is chartered by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
June 27 » The Republic of Ezo on the island of Hokkaido ends after being defeated by Japanese Imperial troops.
August 2 » Japan's Edo society class system is abolished as part of the Meiji Restoration reforms.
October 5 » The Saxby Gale devastates the Bay of Fundy region in Canada.
Day of marriage September 18, 1895
The temperature on September 18, 1895 was about 15.4 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 98%. Source: KNMI
February 9 » William G. Morgan creates a game called Mintonette, which soon comes to be referred to as volleyball.
February 24 » Revolution breaks out in Baire, a town near Santiago de Cuba, beginning the Cuban War of Independence, that ends with the Spanish–American War in 1898.
April 3 » The trial in the libel case brought by Oscar Wilde begins, eventually resulting in his imprisonment on charges of homosexuality.
May 25 » Playwright, poet and novelist Oscar Wilde is convicted of "committing acts of gross indecency with other male persons" and sentenced to serve two years in prison.
November 5 » George B. Selden is granted the first U.S. patent for an automobile.
December 28 » Wilhelm Röntgen publishes a paper detailing his discovery of a new type of radiation, which later will be known as x-rays.
Day of death February 25, 1955
The temperature on February 25, 1955 was between -5.0 °C and 0.1 °C and averaged -3.2 °C. The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. Source: KNMI
January 7 » Contralto Marian Anderson becomes the first person of color to perform at the Metropolitan Opera in Giuseppe Verdi's Un ballo in maschera.
April 18 » Twenty-nine nations meet at Bandung, Indonesia, for the first Asian-African Conference.
May 25 » In the United States, a night-time F5 tornado strikes the small city of Udall, Kansas, killing 80 and injuring 273. It is the deadliest tornado to ever occur in the state and the 23rd deadliest in the U.S.
June 26 » The South African Congress Alliance adopts the Freedom Charter at the Congress of the People in Kliptown.
November 1 » The Vietnam War begins.
December 5 » The American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations merge and form the AFL–CIO.
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