The temperature on August 23, 1871 was about 17.1 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 7 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the west-southwest. The atmospheric humidity was 88%. 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.
January 28 » Franco-Prussian War: The Siege of Paris ends in French defeat and an armistice.
July 20 » British Columbia joins the confederation of Canada.
July 30 » The Staten Island Ferry Westfield's boiler explodes, killing over 85 people.
October 10 » Chicago burns after a barn accident. The fire lasts from October 8–10.
November 10 » Henry Morton Stanley locates missing explorer and missionary, Dr David Livingstone in Ujiji, near Lake Tanganyika, famously greeting him with the words, "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?".
November 16 » The National Rifle Association receives its charter from New York State.
Day of marriage May 11, 1899
The temperature on May 11, 1899 was about 9.5 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 96%. Source: KNMI
March 27 » Emilio Aguinaldo leads Filipino forces for the only time during the Philippine–American War at the Battle of Marilao River.
April 18 » The St. Andrew's Ambulance Association is granted a royal charter by Queen Victoria.
June 7 » American Temperance crusader Carrie Nation begins her campaign of vandalizing alcohol-serving establishments by destroying the inventory in a saloon in Kiowa, Kansas.
November 2 » The Boers begin their 118-day siege of British-held Ladysmith during the Second Boer War.
November 28 » The Second Boer War: a British column is engaged by Boer forces at the Battle of Modder River; although the Boers withdraw, the British suffer heavy casualties.
Day of death December 1, 1963
The temperature on December 1, 1963 was between 2.7 °C and 7.9 °C and averaged 5.2 °C. There was 5.5 hours of sunshine (68%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. Source: KNMI
January 2 » Vietnam War: The Viet Cong wins its first major victory, at the Battle of Ap Bac.
February 5 » The European Court of Justice's ruling in Van Gend en Loos v Nederlandse Administratie der Belastingen establishes the principle of direct effect, one of the most important, if not the most important, decisions in the development of European Union law.
June 10 » The Equal Pay Act of 1963, aimed at abolishing wage disparity based on sex, was signed into law by John F. Kennedy as part of his New Frontier Program.
November 25 » President John F. Kennedy is buried at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington County, Virginia, across the Potomac River from Washington, D.C.; his assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, is buried on the same day in Fort Worth, Texas.
December 7 » Instant replay makes its debut during the Army-Navy football game in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.
December 25 » Turkish Cypriot Bayrak Radio begins transmitting in Cyprus after Turkish Cypriots are forcibly excluded from Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation.
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