The temperature on September 3, 1870 was about 17.9 °C. There was 11 mm of rain. The air pressure was 3 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 85%. 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).
March 30 » Texas is readmitted to the United States Congress following Reconstruction.
April 13 » The New York City Metropolitan Museum of Art is founded.
July 15 » Reconstruction Era of the United States: Georgia becomes the last of the former Confederate states to be readmitted to the Union.
September 1 » Franco-Prussian War: The Battle of Sedan is fought, resulting in a decisive Prussian victory.
September 18 » Old Faithful Geyser is observed and named by Henry D. Washburn.
October 27 » Franco-Prussian War: Marshal Bazaine surrenders to Prussian forces at the conclusion of the Siege of Metz along with 140,000 French soldiers.
Day of marriage August 3, 1896
The temperature on August 3, 1896 was about 17.3 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 80%. Source: KNMI
August 17 » Bridget Driscoll became the first recorded case of a pedestrian killed in a collision with a motor car in the United Kingdom.
September 22 » Queen Victoria surpasses her grandfather King George III as the longest reigning monarch in British history.
December 14 » The Glasgow Underground Railway is opened by the Glasgow District Subway Company.
Day of death January 7, 1953
The temperature on January 7, 1953 was between -4.9 °C and -0.4 °C and averaged -2.2 °C. There was 0.7 hours of sunshine (9%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. Source: KNMI
January 19 » Almost 72 percent of all television sets in the United States are tuned into I Love Lucy to watch Lucy give birth.
February 3 » The Batepá massacre occurred in São Tomé when the colonial administration and Portuguese landowners unleashed a wave of violence against the native creoles known as forros.
June 9 » The Flint–Worcester tornado outbreak sequence kills 94 people in Massachusetts.
September 21 » Lieutenant No Kum-sok, a North Korean pilot, defects to South Korea with his jet fighter.
November 17 » The remaining human inhabitants of the Blasket Islands, Kerry, Ireland, are evacuated to the mainland.
December 10 » British Prime Minister Winston Churchill receives the Nobel Prize in literature.
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