The temperature on August 30, 1867 was about 22.0 °C. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 68%. Source: KNMI
From June 1, 1866 till June 4, 1868 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt - Heemskerk with the prime ministers Mr. J.P.J.A. graaf Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt (AR) and Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief).
January 15 » Forty people die when ice covering the boating lake at Regent's Park, London, collapses.
March 1 » Nebraska becomes the 37th U.S. state; Lancaster, Nebraska is renamed Lincoln and becomes the state capital.
March 2 » The U.S. Congress passes the first Reconstruction Act.
April 1 » Singapore becomes a British crown colony.
July 1 » The British North America Act takes effect as the Province of Canada, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia join into confederation to create the modern nation of Canada. Sir John A. Macdonald is sworn in as the first Prime Minister of Canada. This date is commemorated annually in Canada as Canada Day, a national holiday.
July 17 » Harvard School of Dental Medicine is established in Boston, Massachusetts. It is the first dental school in the U.S. that is affiliated with a university.
Day of marriage August 8, 1889
The temperature on August 8, 1889 was about 20.3 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain. The air pressure was 4 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the west-northwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 63%. Source: KNMI
June 26 » Bangui is founded by Albert Dolisie and Alfred Uzac in what was then the upper reaches of the French Congo.
June 29 » Hyde Park and several other Illinois townships vote to be annexed by Chicago, forming the largest United States city in area and second largest in population at the time.
August 13 » William Gray of Hartford, Connecticut is granted United States Patent Number 408,709 for "Coin-controlled apparatus for telephones."
November 11 » The State of Washington is admitted as the 42nd state of the United States.
November 14 » Pioneering female journalist Nellie Bly (aka Elizabeth Cochrane) begins a successful attempt to travel around the world in less than 80 days. She completes the trip in 72 days.
November 15 » Brazil is declared a republic by Marshal Deodoro da Fonseca as Emperor Pedro II is deposed in a military coup.
Day of death January 30, 1957
The temperature on January 30, 1957 was between 4.7 °C and 8.3 °C and averaged 6.5 °C. There was 1.0 mm of rain during 0.9 hours. There was 1.6 hours of sunshine (18%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
April 24 » Suez Crisis: The Suez Canal is reopened following the introduction of UNEF peacekeepers to the region.
July 25 » The Tunisian King Muhammad VIII al-Amin is replaced by President Habib Bourguiba.
August 1 » The United States and Canada form the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD).
August 5 » American Bandstand, a show dedicated to the teenage "baby-boomers" by playing the songs and showing popular dances of the time, debuts on the ABC television network.
September 24 » President Eisenhower sends the 101st Airborne Division to Little Rock, Arkansas, to enforce desegregation.
November 14 » The "Apalachin Meeting" in rural Tioga County in upstate New York is raided by law enforcement; many high level Mafia figures are arrested while trying to flee.
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