The temperature on January 17, 1872 was about 2.3 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. The air pressure was 20 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the south-southeast. The atmospheric humidity was 85%. Source: KNMI
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.
From July 6, 1872 till August 27, 1874 the Netherlands had a cabinet De Vries - Fransen van de Putte with the prime ministers Mr. G. de Vries Azn. (liberaal) and I.D. Fransen van de Putte (liberaal).
March 11 » Construction of the Seven Sisters Colliery, South Wales, begins; located on one of the richest coal sources in Britain.
March 16 » The Wanderers F.C. won the first FA Cup, the oldest football competition in the world, beating Royal Engineers A.F.C. 1–0 at The Oval in Kennington, London.
May 22 » Reconstruction Era: President Ulysses S. Grant signs the Amnesty Act into law, restoring full civil and political rights to all but about 500 Confederate sympathizers.
September 18 » King Oscar II accedes to the throne of Sweden–Norway.
November 9 » The Great Boston Fire of 1872.
November 18 » Susan B. Anthony and 14 other women are arrested for voting illegally in the United States presidential election of 1872.
Day of marriage November 27, 1896
The temperature on November 27, 1896 was about -5.9 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 93%. Source: KNMI
March 1 » Battle of Adwa: An Ethiopian army defeats an outnumbered Italian force, ending the First Italo-Ethiopian War.
April 15 » Closing ceremony of the Games of the I Olympiad in Athens, Greece.
May 26 » Nicholas II becomes the last Tsar of Imperial Russia.
June 2 » Guglielmo Marconi applies for a patent for his wireless telegraph.
November 17 » The Western Pennsylvania Hockey League, which later became the first ice hockey league to openly trade and hire players, began play at Pittsburgh's Schenley Park Casino.
December 14 » The Glasgow Underground Railway is opened by the Glasgow District Subway Company.
Day of death February 3, 1952
The temperature on February 3, 1952 was between -0.9 °C and 2.2 °C and averaged 0.4 °C. There was 4.1 mm of rain during 1.8 hours. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
January 14 » NBC's long-running morning news program Today debuts, with host Dave Garroway.
February 6 » Elizabeth II becomes Queen of the United Kingdom and her other Realms and Territories and Head of the Commonwealth upon the death of her father, George VI. At the exact moment of succession, she was in a tree house at the Treetops Hotel in Kenya.
May 3 » Lieutenant Colonels Joseph O. Fletcher and William P. Benedict of the United States land a plane at the North Pole.
October 8 » The Harrow and Wealdstone rail crash kills 112 people.
December 20 » A United States Air Force C-124 crashes and burns in Moses Lake, Washington killing 87.
December 24 » First flight of Britain's Handley Page Victor strategic bomber.
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