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).
March 1 » Nebraska becomes the 37th U.S. state; Lancaster, Nebraska is renamed Lincoln and becomes the state capital.
March 29 » Queen Victoria gives Royal Assent to the British North America Act which establishes Canada on July 1.
April 1 » Singapore becomes a British crown colony.
September 2 » Mutsuhito, Emperor Meiji of Japan, marries Masako Ichijō, thereafter known as Empress Shōken.
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).
December 2 » At Tremont Temple in Boston, British author Charles Dickens gives his first public reading in the United States.
Day of death September 14, 1958
The temperature on September 14, 1958 was between 8.8 °C and 25.4 °C and averaged 17.1 °C. There was 10.6 hours of sunshine (83%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. Source: KNMI
April 14 » The Soviet satellite Sputnik 2 falls from orbit after a mission duration of 162 days. This was the first spacecraft to carry a living animal, a female dog named Laika, who likely lived only a few hours.
July 7 » US President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the Alaska Statehood Act into law.
October 7 » The 1958 Pakistani coup d'état inaugurates a prolonged period of military rule.
October 11 » NASA launches Pioneer 1, its first space probe, although it fails to achieve a stable orbit.
October 26 » Pan American Airways makes the first commercial flight of the Boeing 707 from New York City to Paris.
November 25 » French Sudan gains autonomy as a self-governing member of the French Community.
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