The temperature on December 18, 1869 was about 11.3 °C. There was 13 mm of rain. The air pressure was 34 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 90%. 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).
April 28 » Chinese and Irish laborers for the Central Pacific Railroad working on the First Transcontinental Railroad lay ten miles of track in one day, a feat which has never been matched.
July 10 » Gävle, Sweden, is largely destroyed in a fire; 80% of its 10,000 residents are left homeless.
August 2 » Japan's Edo society class system is abolished as part of the Meiji Restoration reforms.
October 5 » The Hennepin Island tunnel collapses during construction, nearly destroying St. Anthony Falls.
October 5 » The Saxby Gale devastates the Bay of Fundy region in Canada.
October 16 » The Cardiff Giant, one of the most famous American hoaxes, is "discovered".
Day of death February 22, 1963
The temperature on February 22, 1963 was between -13.8 °C and 1.0 °C and averaged -7.4 °C. There was 8.2 hours of sunshine (79%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the ??. Source: KNMI
January 22 » The Élysée Treaty of cooperation between France and Germany is signed by Charles de Gaulle and Konrad Adenauer.
August 5 » Cold War: The United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union sign the Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.
August 31 » Crown Colony of North Borneo (now Sabah) achieves self governance.
October 4 » Hurricane Flora kills 6,000 in Cuba and Haiti.
October 18 » Félicette, a black and white female Parisian stray cat becomes the first cat launched into space.
October 31 » A propane tank explosion at the Indiana State Fair Coliseum (now the Indiana Farmers Coliseum) in Indianapolis kills 74 people and injures another 400 during an ice skating show.
Day of burial February 27, 1963
The temperature on February 27, 1963 was between -7.4 °C and 4.1 °C and averaged -1.7 °C. There was 8.8 hours of sunshine (82%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east. Source: KNMI
January 8 » Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa is exhibited in the United States for the first time, at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.
April 11 » Pope John XXIII issues Pacem in terris, the first encyclical addressed to all Christians instead of only Catholics, and which described the conditions for world peace in human terms.
May 2 » Berthold Seliger launches a rocket with three stages and a maximum flight altitude of more than 100 kilometres near Cuxhaven. It is the only sounding rocket developed in Germany.
May 8 » South Vietnamese soldiers under the Roman Catholic President Ngo Dinh Diem open fire on Buddhists defying a ban on the flying of the Buddhist flag on Vesak, killing nine and sparking the Buddhist crisis.
July 12 » Pauline Reade, 16, disappears in Gorton, England, the first victim in the Moors murders.
December 10 » An assassination attempt on the British High Commissioner in Aden kills two people and wounds dozens more.
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