The temperature on July 8, 1875 was about 16.7 °C. There was 35 mm of rain. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the north-northeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 95%. Source: KNMI
From August 27, 1874 till November 3, 1877 the Netherlands had a cabinet Heemskerk - Van Lijnden van Sandenburg with the prime ministers Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief) and Mr. C.Th. baron Van Lijnden van Sandenburg (AR).
January 5 » The Palais Garnier, one of the most famous opera houses in the world, is inaugurated in Paris.
February 25 » Guangxu Emperor of Qing dynasty China begins his reign, under Empress Dowager Cixi's regency.
March 3 » Georges Bizet's opera Carmen receives its première at the Opéra-Comique in Paris.
May 17 » Aristides wins the first Kentucky Derby with the jockey Oliver Lewis (2:37.75)
July 9 » The Herzegovina Uprising against Ottoman rule begins, which would last until 1878 and have far-reaching implications throughout the Balkans.
September 27 » The merchant sailing ship Ellen Southard is wrecked in a storm at Liverpool.
Day of marriage September 19, 1923
The temperature on September 19, 1923 was between 6.5 °C and 14.7 °C and averaged 10.2 °C. There was 6.4 mm of rain. There was 4.7 hours of sunshine (38%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from September 19, 1922 to August 4, 1925 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck II, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
February 10 » Texas Tech University is founded as Texas Technological College in Lubbock, Texas
June 18 » Checker Taxi puts its first taxi on the streets.
August 2 » Vice President Calvin Coolidge becomes U.S. President upon the death of President Warren G. Harding.
September 12 » Southern Rhodesia, today called Zimbabwe, is annexed by the United Kingdom.
October 31 » The first of 160 consecutive days of 100° Fahrenheit at Marble Bar, Western Australia.
December 21 » United Kingdom and Nepal formally signed an agreement of friendship, called the Nepal–Britain Treaty of 1923, which superseded the Treaty of Sugauli signed in 1816.
Day of death June 12, 1962
The temperature on June 12, 1962 was between 4.8 °C and 18.2 °C and averaged 12.7 °C. There was 0.8 hours of sunshine (5%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
July 11 » Project Apollo: At a press conference, NASA announces lunar orbit rendezvous as the means to land astronauts on the Moon, and return them to Earth.
August 7 » Canadian-born American pharmacologist Frances Oldham Kelsey awarded the U.S. President's Award for Distinguished Federal Civilian Service for her refusal to authorize thalidomide.
November 4 » The United States concludes Operation Fishbowl, its final above-ground nuclear weapons testing series, in anticipation of the 1963 Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.
November 7 » Eleanor Roosevelt, wife and First Lady of the 32nd president of the United States Franklin D. Roosevelt, dies in her bed at her home in New York City.
December 11 » Arthur Lucas, convicted of murder, is the last person to be executed in Canada.
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