The temperature on January 11, 1875 was about 7.2 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the south. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 84%. Source: KNMI
From August 27, 1874 till November 3, 1877 the Netherlands had a cabinet Heemskerk - Van Lijnden van Sandenburg with the prime ministers Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief) and Mr. C.Th. baron Van Lijnden van Sandenburg (AR).
February 25 » Guangxu Emperor of Qing dynasty China begins his reign, under Empress Dowager Cixi's regency.
March 3 » Georges Bizet's opera Carmen receives its première at the Opéra-Comique in Paris.
March 3 » The first ever organized indoor game of ice hockey is played in Montreal, Quebec, Canada as recorded in the Montreal Gazette.
May 1 » Alexandra Palace reopens after being burned down in a fire in 1873.
July 9 » The Herzegovina Uprising against Ottoman rule begins, which would last until 1878 and have far-reaching implications throughout the Balkans.
August 25 » Captain Matthew Webb becomes the first person to swim across the English Channel, traveling from Dover, England, to Calais, France, in 21 hours and 45 minutes.
Day of death February 21, 1955
The temperature on February 21, 1955 was between -8.0 °C and -0.8 °C and averaged -4.1 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 0.4 hours of sunshine (4%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. Source: KNMI
May 18 » Operation Passage to Freedom, the evacuation of 310,000 Vietnamese civilians, soldiers and non-Vietnamese members of the French Army from communist North Vietnam to South Vietnam following the end of the First Indochina War, ends.
June 26 » The South African Congress Alliance adopts the Freedom Charter at the Congress of the People in Kliptown.
July 15 » Eighteen Nobel laureates sign the Mainau Declaration against nuclear weapons, later co-signed by thirty-four others.
July 27 » El Al Flight 402 is shot down by two fighter jets after straying into Bulgarian air space. All 58 people onboard are killed.
August 28 » Black teenager Emmett Till is brutally murdered in Mississippi, galvanizing the nascent civil rights movement.
December 20 » Cardiff is proclaimed the capital city of Wales, United Kingdom.
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