The temperature on April 15, 1870 was about 12.9 °C. The air pressure was 8 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the northwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 57%. 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 15 » A political cartoon for the first time symbolizes the Democratic Party with a donkey ("A Live Jackass Kicking a Dead Lion" by Thomas Nast for Harper's Weekly).
February 9 » US president Ulysses S. Grant signs a joint resolution of Congress establishing the U.S. Weather Bureau.
February 23 » Reconstruction Era: Post-U.S. Civil War military control of Mississippi ends and it is readmitted to the Union.
April 13 » The New York City Metropolitan Museum of Art is founded.
September 1 » Franco-Prussian War: The Battle of Sedan is fought, resulting in a decisive Prussian victory.
September 20 » The Bersaglieri corps enter Rome through the Porta Pia, and complete the unification of Italy.
Day of marriage February 11, 1899
The temperature on February 11, 1899 was about 14.7 °C. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 63%. Source: KNMI
January 17 » The United States takes possession of Wake Island in the Pacific Ocean.
June 7 » American Temperance crusader Carrie Nation begins her campaign of vandalizing alcohol-serving establishments by destroying the inventory in a saloon in Kiowa, Kansas.
July 26 » Ulises Heureaux, the 27th President of the Dominican Republic, is assassinated.
July 29 » The First Hague Convention is signed.
September 13 » Henry Bliss is the first person in the United States to be killed in an automobile accident.
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