The temperature on December 30, 1871 was about 3.1 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain. The air pressure was 12 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the south-southwest. The atmospheric humidity was 89%. 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 18 » Declaration of the Paris Commune; President of the French Republic, Adolphe Thiers, orders the evacuation of Paris.
March 28 » The Paris Commune is formally established in Paris.
March 29 » Royal Albert Hall is opened by Queen Victoria.
May 21 » Opening of the first rack railway in Europe, the Rigi Bahnen on Mount Rigi.
October 24 » An estimated 17 to 20 Chinese immigrants are lynched in Los Angeles, California.
December 26 » Thespis, the first Gilbert and Sullivan collaboration, debuts. It does modestly well, but the two would not collaborate again for four years and the score has been lost.
Day of marriage August 3, 1895
The temperature on August 3, 1895 was about 17.5 °C. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 85%. Source: KNMI
April 6 » Oscar Wilde is arrested in the Cadogan Hotel, London, after losing a libel case against the Marquess of Queensberry.
May 7 » In Saint Petersburg, Russian scientist Alexander Stepanovich Popov demonstrates to the Russian Physical and Chemical Society his invention, the Popov lightning detector—a primitive radio receiver. In some parts of the former Soviet Union the anniversary of this day is celebrated as Radio Day.
September 18 » The Atlanta Exposition Speech on race relations is delivered by Booker T. Washington.
October 8 » Korean Empress Myeongseong is assassinated by Japanese infiltrators.
October 22 » In Paris an express train derails after overrunning the buffer stop, crossing almost 30 metres (100ft) of concourse before crashing through a wall and falling 10 metres (33ft) to the road below.
November 8 » While experimenting with electricity, Wilhelm Röntgen discovers the X-ray.
Day of death March 23, 1958
The temperature on March 23, 1958 was between -6.6 °C and 2.7 °C and averaged -2.1 °C. There was 10.2 hours of sunshine (83%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east. Source: KNMI
January 4 » Sputnik 1, the first artificial Earth satellite, launched by the Soviet Union in 1957, falls to Earth from orbit.
July 26 » Explorer program: Explorer 4 is launched.
August 3 » The world's first nuclear submarine, the USS Nautilus, becomes the first vessel to complete a submerged transit of the geographical North Pole.
August 23 » Chinese Civil War: The Second Taiwan Strait Crisis begins with the People's Liberation Army's bombardment of Quemoy.
October 2 » Guinea declares its independence from France.
October 7 » The U.S. manned space-flight project is renamed Project Mercury.
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