The temperature on December 23, 1871 was about -3.2 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the west-southwest. The atmospheric humidity was 100%. 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).
In The Netherlands , there was from January 4, 1871 to July 6, 1872 the cabinet Thorbecke III, with Mr. J.R. Thorbecke (liberaal) as prime minister.
March 21 » Otto von Bismarck is appointed as the first Chancellor of the German Empire.
March 29 » Royal Albert Hall is opened by Queen Victoria.
May 28 » The Paris Commune falls after two months.
October 24 » An estimated 17 to 20 Chinese immigrants are lynched in Los Angeles, California.
December 24 » The opera Aida premieres in Cairo, Egypt.
December 26 » Thespis, the first Gilbert and Sullivan collaboration, debuts. It does modestly well, but the two would not collaborate again for four years and the score has been lost.
Day of death March 23, 1963
The temperature on March 23, 1963 was between -2.3 °C and 5.1 °C and averaged 1.5 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain during 0.2 hours. There was 1.6 hours of sunshine (13%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north. Source: KNMI
July 1 » The British Government admits that former diplomat Kim Philby had worked as a Soviet agent.
July 26 » An earthquake in Skopje, Yugoslavia (present-day North Macedonia) leaves 1,100 dead.
October 10 » The Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty comes into effect.
November 23 » The BBC broadcasts An Unearthly Child (starring William Hartnell), the first episode of the first story from the first series of Doctor Who, which is now the world's longest running science fiction drama.
November 24 » Lee Harvey Oswald, the assassin of President John F. Kennedy, is killed by Jack Ruby.
December 31 » The Central African Federation officially collapses, subsequently becoming Zambia, Malawi and Rhodesia.
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