The temperature on February 20, 1851 was about 6.6 °C. There was 5 mm of rain. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 96%. Source: KNMI
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De Republiek der Verenigde Nederlanden werd in 1794-1795 door de Fransen veroverd onder leiding van bevelhebber Charles Pichegru (geholpen door de Nederlander Herman Willem Daendels); de verovering werd vergemakkelijkt door het dichtvriezen van de Waterlinie; Willem V moest op 18 januari 1795 uitwijken naar Engeland (en van daaruit in 1801 naar Duitsland); de patriotten namen de macht over van de aristocratische regenten en proclameerden de Bataafsche Republiek; op 16 mei 1795 werd het Haags Verdrag gesloten, waarmee ons land een vazalstaat werd van Frankrijk; in 3.1796 kwam er een Nationale Vergadering; in 1798 pleegde Daendels een staatsgreep, die de unitarissen aan de macht bracht; er kwam een nieuwe grondwet, die een Vertegenwoordigend Lichaam (met een Eerste en Tweede Kamer) instelde en als regering een Directoire; in 1799 sloeg Daendels bij Castricum een Brits-Russische invasie af; in 1801 kwam er een nieuwe grondwet; bij de Vrede van Amiens (1802) kreeg ons land van Engeland zijn koloniën terug (behalve Ceylon); na de grondwetswijziging van 1805 kwam er een raadpensionaris als eenhoofdig gezag, namelijk Rutger Jan Schimmelpenninck (van 31 oktober 1761 tot 25 maart 1825).
In The Netherlands , there was from November 1, 1849 to April 19, 1853 the cabinet Thorbecke I, with Mr. J.R. Thorbecke (liberaal) as prime minister.
February 6 » The largest Australian bushfires in a populous region in recorded history take place in the state of Victoria.
March 11 » The first performance of Rigoletto by Giuseppe Verdi takes place in Venice.
May 21 » Slavery in Colombia is abolished.
October 18 » Herman Melville's Moby-Dick is first published as The Whale by Richard Bentley of London.
November 13 » The Denny Party lands at Alki Point, before moving to the other side of Elliott Bay to what would become Seattle.
November 14 » Moby-Dick, a novel by Herman Melville, is published in the USA.
Day of marriage May 21, 1884
The temperature on May 21, 1884 was about 9.9 °C. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the north-northeast. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 81%. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from April 23, 1884 to April 21, 1888 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief) as prime minister.
February 19 » More than sixty tornadoes strike the Southern United States, one of the largest tornado outbreaks in U.S. history.
May 1 » Moses Fleetwood Walker becomes the first black person to play in a professional baseball game in the United States.
July 3 » Dow Jones & Company publishes its first stock average.
October 6 » The Naval War College of the United States is founded in Rhode Island.
October 13 » The International Meridian Conference establishes the meridian of the Greenwich Observatory as the prime meridian.
December 6 » The Washington Monument in Washington, D.C., is completed.
Day of death November 29, 1934
The temperature on November 29, 1934 was between 6.0 °C and 9.2 °C and averaged 7.3 °C. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. Source: KNMI
April 12 » The strongest surface wind gust in the world at the time of 231mph, is measured on the summit of Mount Washington, New Hampshire. It has since been surpassed.
June 19 » The Communications Act of 1934 establishes the United States' Federal Communications Commission (FCC).
July 20 » Labor unrest in the U.S.: Police in Minneapolis fire upon striking truck drivers, during the Minneapolis Teamsters Strike of 1934, killing two and wounding sixty-seven.
July 25 » The Nazis assassinate Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss in a failed coup attempt.
November 30 » The LNER Class A3 4472 Flying Scotsman becomes the first steam locomotive to be authenticated as reaching 100mph.
December 1 » In the Soviet Union, Politburo member Sergey Kirov is assassinated. Stalin uses the incident as a pretext to initiate the Great Purge.
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