The temperature on December 12, 1876 was about 2.7 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain. The air pressure was 5 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the south-southeast. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 89%. 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).
April 17 » Catalpa rescue: The rescue of six Fenian prisoners from Fremantle Prison in Western Australia.
May 2 » The April Uprising breaks out in Ottoman Bulgaria.
August 31 » Ottoman Sultan Murad V is deposed and succeeded by his brother Abdul Hamid II.
November 17 » Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's "Slavonic March" is given its premiere performance in Moscow, Russia.
November 23 » Corrupt Tammany Hall leader William Magear Tweed (better known as Boss Tweed) is delivered to authorities in New York City after being captured in Spain.
November 25 » American Indian Wars: In retaliation for the American defeat at the Battle of the Little Bighorn, United States Army troops sack the sleeping village of Cheyenne Chief Dull Knife at the headwaters of the Powder River.
Day of marriage June 9, 1904
The temperature on June 9, 1904 was between 5.0 °C and 21.3 °C and averaged 14.3 °C. There was 6.3 hours of sunshine (38%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. Source: KNMI
February 8 » Aceh War: Dutch Colonial Army's Marechaussee regiment led by General G.C.E. van Daalen launch military campaign to capture Gayo Highland, Alas Highland, and Batak Highland in Dutch East Indies' Northern Sumatra region, which ends with genocide to Acehnese and Bataks people.
April 8 » Longacre Square in Midtown Manhattan is renamed Times Square after The New York Times.
April 8 » The French Third Republic and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland sign the Entente cordiale.
August 10 » Russo-Japanese War: The Battle of the Yellow Sea between the Russian and Japanese battleship fleets takes place.
August 23 » The automobile tire chain is patented.
December 3 » The Jovian moon Himalia is discovered by Charles Dillon Perrine at California's Lick Observatory.
Day of death December 2, 1962
The temperature on December 2, 1962 was between -4.4 °C and 1.8 °C and averaged -1.9 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. There was 5.8 hours of sunshine (72%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. Source: KNMI
January 15 » Netherlands New Guinea Conflict: Indonesian Navy fast patrol boat RI Macan Tutul commanded by Commodore Yos Sudarso sunk in Arafura Sea by the Dutch Navy.
June 3 » At Paris Orly Airport, Air France Flight 007 overruns the runway and explodes when the crew attempts to abort takeoff, killing 130.
July 2 » The first Walmart store, then known as Wal-Mart, opens for business in Rogers, Arkansas.
August 31 » Trinidad and Tobago becomes independent.
October 27 » Major Rudolf Anderson of the United States Air Force becomes the only direct human casualty of the Cuban Missile Crisis when his U-2 reconnaissance airplane is shot down over Cuba by a Soviet-supplied surface-to-air missile.
December 2 » Vietnam War: After a trip to Vietnam at the request of U.S. President John F. Kennedy, U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield becomes the first American official to comment adversely on the war's progress.
Day of cremation December 6, 1962
The temperature on December 6, 1962 was between -10.3 °C and 8.0 °C and averaged -3.9 °C. There was 6.2 hours of sunshine (78%). Source: KNMI
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