The temperature on April 20, 1871 was about 10.9 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 14 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the southwest. The atmospheric humidity was 72%. 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 21 » Journalist Henry Morton Stanley begins his trek to find the missionary and explorer David Livingstone.
March 27 » The first international rugby football match, when Scotland defeats England in Edinburgh at Raeburn Place.
March 29 » Royal Albert Hall is opened by Queen Victoria.
April 1 » The 3rd Duke of Buckingham opened the Brill Tramway, a short railway line to transport goods between his lands and the national rail network.
July 30 » The Staten Island Ferry Westfield's boiler explodes, killing over 85 people.
October 24 » An estimated 17 to 20 Chinese immigrants are lynched in Los Angeles, California.
Day of marriage May 5, 1893
The temperature on May 5, 1893 was about 11.0 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 71%. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from August 21, 1891 to May 9, 1894 the cabinet Van Tienhoven, with Mr. G. van Tienhoven (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
January 21 » The Tati Concessions Land, formerly part of Matabeleland, is formally annexed to the Bechuanaland Protectorate, now Botswana.
August 1 » Henry Perky patents shredded wheat.
August 14 » France becomes the first country to introduce motor vehicle registration.
September 16 » Settlers make a land run for prime land in the Cherokee Strip in Oklahoma.
September 20 » Charles Duryea and his brother road-test the first American-made gasoline-powered automobile.
November 28 » Women's suffrage in New Zealand concludes with the 1893 New Zealand general election.
Day of death December 5, 1946
The temperature on December 5, 1946 was between -1.1 °C and 6.0 °C and averaged 1.4 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. There was 5.5 hours of sunshine (69%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest. Source: KNMI
From June 24, 1945 till July 3, 1946 the Netherlands had a cabinet Schermerhorn - Drees with the prime ministers Prof. ir. W. Schermerhorn (VDB) and W. Drees (PvdA).
In The Netherlands , there was from July 3, 1946 to August 7, 1948 the cabinet Beel I, with Dr. L.J.M. Beel (KVP) as prime minister.
January 19 » General Douglas MacArthur establishes the International Military Tribunal for the Far East in Tokyo to try Japanese war criminals.
January 24 » The United Nations General Assembly passes its first resolution to establish the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission.
April 18 » The International Court of Justice holds its inaugural meeting in The Hague, Netherlands.
April 29 » The International Military Tribunal for the Far East convenes and indicts former Prime Minister of Japan Hideki Tojo and 28 former Japanese leaders for war crimes.
July 7 » Howard Hughes nearly dies when his XF-11 reconnaissance aircraft prototype crashes in a Beverly Hills neighborhood.
September 24 » Cathay Pacific Airways is founded in Hong Kong.
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