The temperature on January 1, 1870 was about 5.0 °C. There was 2 mm of rain. The air pressure was 4 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. 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).
January 3 » Construction work begins on the Brooklyn Bridge in New York, United States.
January 6 » The inauguration of the Musikverein in Vienna, Austria.
February 9 » US president Ulysses S. Grant signs a joint resolution of Congress establishing the U.S. Weather Bureau.
February 15 » Stevens Institute of Technology is founded in New Jersey, USA and offers the first Bachelor of Engineering degree in Mechanical Engineering.
September 2 » Franco-Prussian War: Battle of Sedan: Prussian forces take Napoleon III of France and 100,000 of his soldiers prisoner.
October 2 » A plebiscite held in Rome, supports annexation of city of Rome by the Kingdom of Italy.
Day of marriage April 27, 1892
The temperature on April 27, 1892 was about 8.3 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 70%. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from August 21, 1891 to May 9, 1894 the cabinet Van Tienhoven, with Mr. G. van Tienhoven (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
June 7 » Homer Plessy is arrested for refusing to leave his seat in the "whites-only" car of a train; he lost the resulting court case, Plessy v. Ferguson.
July 7 » The Katipunan is established, the discovery of which by Spanish authorities initiated the Philippine Revolution.
July 26 » Dadabhai Naoroji is elected as the first Indian Member of Parliament in Britain.
August 9 » Thomas Edison receives a patent for a two-way telegraph.
October 26 » Ida B. Wells publishes Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases.
December 9 » English football club Newcastle United is founded.
Day of death January 6, 1954
The temperature on January 6, 1954 was between -8.2 °C and -3.4 °C and averaged -6.0 °C. There was 5.6 hours of sunshine (71%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. Source: KNMI
March 26 » Nuclear weapons testing: The Romeo shot of Operation Castle is detonated at Bikini Atoll. Yield: 11 megatons.
April 7 » United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower gives his "domino theory" speech during a news conference.
June 12 » Pope Pius XII canonises Dominic Savio, who was 14 years old at the time of his death, as a saint, making him at the time the youngest unmartyred saint in the Roman Catholic Church. In 2017, Francisco and Jacinta Marto, aged ten and nine at the time of their deaths, are declared saints.
July 21 » First Indochina War: The Geneva Conference partitions Vietnam into North Vietnam and South Vietnam.
August 23 » First flight of the Lockheed C-130 multi-role aircraft.
October 15 » Hurricane Hazel devastates the eastern seaboard of North America, killing 95 and causing massive floods as far north as Toronto.
Day of burial January 9, 1954
The average temperature on January 9, 1954 was 2.1 °C. There was 7.4 mm of rain during 5.1 hours. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
January 7 » Georgetown-IBM experiment: The first public demonstration of a machine translation system is held in New York at the head office of IBM.
March 19 » Willie Mosconi sets a world record by running 526 consecutive balls without a miss during a straight pool exhibition at East High Billiard Club in Springfield, Ohio, setting a record that remains unbroken.
April 8 » A Royal Canadian Air Force Canadair Harvard collides with a Trans-Canada Airlines Canadair North Star over Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, killing 37 people.
June 27 » The Obninsk Nuclear Power Plant, the Soviet Union's first nuclear power station, opens in Obninsk, near Moscow.
September 14 » In a top secret nuclear test, a Soviet Tu-4 bomber drops a 40 kiloton atomic weapon just north of Totskoye village.
September 17 » The novel Lord of the Flies by William Golding is first published.
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