The temperature on August 25, 1871 was about 15.9 °C. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the west-southwest. The atmospheric humidity was 84%. 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 28 » The Paris Commune is formally established in Paris.
April 30 » The Camp Grant massacre takes place in Arizona Territory.
May 4 » The National Association, the first professional baseball league, opens its first season in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
July 2 » Victor Emmanuel II of Italy enters Rome after having conquered it from the Papal States.
July 30 » The Staten Island Ferry Westfield's boiler explodes, killing over 85 people.
September 20 » Bishop John Coleridge Patteson, first bishop of Melanesia, is martyred on Nukapu, now in the Solomon Islands.
Day of death May 16, 1956
The temperature on May 16, 1956 was between 6.0 °C and 16.9 °C and averaged 11.9 °C. There was 5.1 hours of sunshine (32%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
June 29 » The Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956 is signed by U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower, officially creating the United States Interstate Highway System.
August 27 » The nuclear power station at Calder Hall in the United Kingdom was connected to the national power grid becoming the world's first commercial nuclear power station to generate electricity on an industrial scale.
September 9 » Elvis Presley appears on The Ed Sullivan Show for the first time.
September 27 » USAF Captain Milburn G. Apt becomes the first person to exceed Mach 3. Shortly thereafter, the Bell X-2 goes out of control and Captain Apt is killed.
October 26 » Hungarian Revolution: In the towns of Mosonmagyaróvár and Esztergom, Hungarian secret police forces massacre civilians. As rebel strongholds in Budapest hold, fighting spreads throughout the country.
November 5 » Suez Crisis: British and French paratroopers land in Egypt after a week-long bombing campaign.
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