(Military Service) : His first wive died inin Indonesia which was a dutch colony at that time. He was in the engneers corp and was active in road building. There is a Drent street somwhere on the island of Java. After his service in the military he married and started a egg and dairy store (zuivelproducten winkkel). After his fist wive died he hired a maid, whom he later married..
The temperature on December 11, 1867 was about 6.9 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. The air pressure was 10 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the west-northwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 94%. Source: KNMI
From June 1, 1866 till June 4, 1868 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt - Heemskerk with the prime ministers Mr. J.P.J.A. graaf Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt (AR) and Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief).
January 8 » African American men are granted the right to vote in Washington, D.C.
April 1 » Singapore becomes a British crown colony.
May 3 » The Hudson's Bay Company gives up all claims to Vancouver Island.
June 19 » Maximilian I of the Second Mexican Empire is executed by a firing squad in Querétaro, Querétaro.
July 1 » The British North America Act takes effect as the Province of Canada, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia join into confederation to create the modern nation of Canada. Sir John A. Macdonald is sworn in as the first Prime Minister of Canada. This date is commemorated annually in Canada as Canada Day, a national holiday.
November 3 » Giuseppe Garibaldi and his followers are defeated in the Battle of Mentana and fail to end the Pope's Temporal power in Rome (it would be achieved three years later).
Day of death October 20, 1954
The temperature on October 20, 1954 was between 10.4 °C and 14.2 °C and averaged 12.4 °C. There was 3.6 hours of sunshine (35%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
March 1 » Nuclear weapons testing: The Castle Bravo, a 15-megaton hydrogen bomb, is detonated on Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean, resulting in the worst radioactive contamination ever caused by the United States.
July 4 » Rationing ends in the United Kingdom.
August 24 » The Communist Control Act goes into effect, outlawing the American Communist Party.
September 3 » The German submarineU-505 begins its move from a specially constructed dock to its site at Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry.
September 8 » The Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) is established.
September 17 » The novel Lord of the Flies by William Golding is first published.
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