The temperature on June 29, 1860 was about 15.2 °C. There was 0.6 mm of rain. The air pressure was 10 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the west. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 83%. Source: KNMI
From March 18, 1858 till February 23, 1860 the Netherlands had a cabinet Rochussen - Van Bosse with the prime ministers J.J. Rochussen (conservatief-liberaal) and Mr. P.P. van Bosse (liberaal).
From February 23, 1860 till March 14, 1861 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Hall - Van Heemstra with the prime ministers Mr. F.A. baron Van Hall (conservatief-liberaal) and Mr. S. baron Van Heemstra (liberaal).
March 24 » Sakuradamon Incident: Assassination of Japanese Chief Minister (Tairō) Ii Naosuke.
March 28 » First Taranaki War: The Battle of Waireka begins.
April 6 » The Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, later renamed Community of Christ, is organized by Joseph Smith III and others at Amboy, Illinois.
April 9 » On his phonautograph machine, Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville makes the oldest known recording of an audible human voice.
June 23 » The United States Congress establishes the Government Printing Office.
June 30 » The 1860 Oxford evolution debate at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History takes place.
Day of marriage September 22, 1879
The temperature on September 22, 1879 was about 15.9 °C. There was 1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 7 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the west-northwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 63%. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from November 3, 1877 to August 20, 1879 the cabinet Kappeijne van de Coppello, with Mr. J. Kappeijne van de Coppello (liberaal) as prime minister.
In The Netherlands , there was from August 20, 1879 to April 23, 1883 the cabinet Van Lijnden van Sandenburg, with Mr. C.Th. baron Van Lijnden van Sandenburg (conservatief-AR) as prime minister.
January 22 » The Battle of Rorke's Drift, also during the Anglo-Zulu War and just some 15km away from Isandlwana, results in a British victory.
January 25 » The Bulgarian National Bank is founded.
February 8 » The England cricket team led by Lord Harris is attacked in a riot during a match in Sydney.
May 14 » The first group of 463 Indian indentured laborers arrives in Fiji aboard the Leonidas.
May 26 » Russia and the United Kingdom sign the Treaty of Gandamak establishing an Afghan state.
December 31 » Thomas Edison demonstrates incandescent lighting to the public for the first time, in Menlo Park, New Jersey.
Day of death April 3, 1947
The temperature on April 3, 1947 was between 0.4 °C and 6.2 °C and averaged 3.3 °C. There was 8.4 mm of rain during 7.5 hours. There was 0.4 hours of sunshine (3%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east. Source: KNMI
April 15 » Jackie Robinson debuts for the Brooklyn Dodgers, breaking baseball's color line.
July 10 » Muhammad Ali Jinnah is recommended as the first Governor-General of Pakistan by the British Prime Minister, Clement Attlee.
August 17 » The Radcliffe Line, the border between the Dominions of India and Pakistan, is revealed.
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.
November 2 » In California, designer Howard Hughes performs the maiden (and only) flight of the Hughes H-4 Hercules (also known as the "Spruce Goose"), the largest fixed-wing aircraft ever built.
November 25 » Red Scare: The "Hollywood Ten" are blacklisted by Hollywood movie studios.
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