The temperature on April 8, 1871 was about 10.3 °C. The air pressure was 3 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the northeast. The atmospheric humidity was 38%. 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 26 » The elections of Commune council of the Paris Commune are held.
May 4 » The National Association, the first professional baseball league, opens its first season in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
July 20 » British Columbia joins the confederation of Canada.
September 20 » Bishop John Coleridge Patteson, first bishop of Melanesia, is martyred on Nukapu, now in the Solomon Islands.
December 24 » The opera Aida premieres in Cairo, Egypt.
Day of death July 14, 1959
The temperature on July 14, 1959 was between 7.7 °C and 20.0 °C and averaged 14.0 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 7.6 hours of sunshine (47%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest. Source: KNMI
January 8 » Charles de Gaulle is proclaimed as the first President of the French Fifth Republic.
June 26 » Swedish boxer Ingemar Johansson becomes world champion of heavy weight boxing, by defeating American Floyd Patterson on technical knockout after two minutes and three seconds in the third round at Yankee Stadium.
July 21 » Elijah Jerry "Pumpsie" Green becomes the first African-American to play for the Boston Red Sox, the last team to integrate. He came in as a pinch runner for Vic Wertz and stayed in as shortstop in a 2–1 loss to the Chicago White Sox.
July 21 » NSSavannah, the first nuclear-powered cargo-passenger ship, is launched as a showcase for Dwight D. Eisenhower's "Atoms for Peace" initiative.
October 21 » President Eisenhower approves the transfer of all US Army space-related activities to NASA, including most of the Army Ballistic Missile Agency.
November 15 » The murders of the Clutter Family in Holcomb, Kansas were discovered, inspiring Truman Capote's non-fiction book In Cold Blood.
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