The temperature on January 28, 1873 was about -1.8 °C. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the east. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 82%. Source: KNMI
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).
February 18 » Bulgarian revolutionary leader Vasil Levski is executed by hanging in Sofia by the Ottoman authorities.
April 4 » The Kennel Club is founded, the oldest and first official registry of purebred dogs in the world.
June 5 » Sultan Barghash bin Said of Zanzibar closes the great slave market under the terms of a treaty with Great Britain.
June 18 » Susan B. Anthony is fined $100 for attempting to vote in the 1872 presidential election.
September 1 » Cetshwayo ascends to the throne as king of the Zulu nation following the death of his father Mpande.
November 22 » The French steamer SS Ville du Havre sinks in 12 minutes after colliding with the Scottish iron clipper Loch Earn in the Atlantic, with a loss of 226 lives.
Day of death May 23, 1952
The temperature on May 23, 1952 was between 4.9 °C and 16.1 °C and averaged 11.4 °C. There was 3.4 hours of sunshine (21%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northwest. Source: KNMI
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.
April 21 » Secretary's Day (now Administrative Professionals' Day) is first celebrated.
May 7 » The concept of the integrated circuit, the basis for all modern computers, is first published by Geoffrey Dummer.
June 26 » The Pan-Malayan Labour Party is founded in Malaya, as a union of statewide labour parties.
October 3 » The United Kingdom successfully tests a nuclear weapon to become the world's third nuclear power.
November 14 » The first regular UK Singles Chart published by the New Musical Express.
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