The temperature on March 7, 1872 was about 10.7 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 13 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the south-southeast. The atmospheric humidity was 95%. Source: KNMI
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.
From July 6, 1872 till August 27, 1874 the Netherlands had a cabinet De Vries - Fransen van de Putte with the prime ministers Mr. G. de Vries Azn. (liberaal) and I.D. Fransen van de Putte (liberaal).
March 5 » George Westinghouse patents the air brake.
May 22 » Reconstruction Era: President Ulysses S. Grant signs the Amnesty Act into law, restoring full civil and political rights to all but about 500 Confederate sympathizers.
July 18 » The Ballot Act 1872 in the United Kingdom introduced the requirement that parliamentary and local government elections be held by secret ballot.
November 18 » Susan B. Anthony and 14 other women are arrested for voting illegally in the United States presidential election of 1872.
November 29 » American Indian Wars: The Modoc War begins with the Battle of Lost River.
December 4 » The crewless American brigantine Mary Celeste, drifting in the Atlantic, is discovered by the Canadian brig Dei Gratia. The ship has been abandoned for nine days but is only slightly damaged. Her master Benjamin Briggs and all nine others known to have been on board are never accounted for.
Day of marriage April 20, 1895
The temperature on April 20, 1895 was about 12.0 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 86%. Source: KNMI
January 12 » The National Trust is founded in the United Kingdom.
April 6 » Oscar Wilde is arrested in the Cadogan Hotel, London, after losing a libel case against the Marquess of Queensberry.
May 25 » Playwright, poet and novelist Oscar Wilde is convicted of "committing acts of gross indecency with other male persons" and sentenced to serve two years in prison.
June 20 » The Kiel Canal, crossing the base of the Jutland peninsula and the busiest artificial waterway in the world, is officially opened.
June 27 » The inaugural run of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's Royal Blue from Washington, D.C., to New York City, the first U.S. passenger train to use electric locomotives.
October 22 » In Paris an express train derails after overrunning the buffer stop, crossing almost 30 metres (100ft) of concourse before crashing through a wall and falling 10 metres (33ft) to the road below.
Day of death February 14, 1957
The temperature on February 14, 1957 was between 3.5 °C and 7.0 °C and averaged 5.4 °C. There was 8.7 mm of rain during 5.3 hours. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
March 25 » United States Customs seizes copies of Allen Ginsberg's poem "Howl" on obscenity grounds.
April 6 » Greek shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis buys the Hellenic National Airlines (TAE) and founds Olympic Airlines.
July 6 » Althea Gibson wins the Wimbledon championships, becoming the first black athlete to do so.
September 4 » The Ford Motor Company introduces the Edsel.
October 10 » U.S. President Eisenhower apologizes to Ghanaian finance minister Gbedemah after he is refused service in a Delaware restaurant.
December 2 » United Nations Security Council Resolution 126 relating to Kashmir conflict is adopted.
Day of burial February 18, 1957
The temperature on February 18, 1957 was between -1.1 °C and 7.2 °C and averaged 2.2 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 0.2 hours. There was 5.4 hours of sunshine (53%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
January 1 » Lèse majesté in Thailand was strengthened to include "insult" and changed to a crime against national security, after Thai criminal code of 1956 went into effect.
January 23 » American inventor Walter Frederick Morrison sells the rights to his flying disc to the Wham-O toy company, which later renames it the "Frisbee".
April 10 » The Suez Canal is reopened for all shipping after being closed for three months.
July 6 » Althea Gibson wins the Wimbledon championships, becoming the first black athlete to do so.
October 10 » U.S. President Eisenhower apologizes to Ghanaian finance minister Gbedemah after he is refused service in a Delaware restaurant.
November 17 » Vickers Viscount G-AOHP of British European Airways crashes at Ballerup after the failure of three engines on approach to Copenhagen Airport. The cause is a malfunction of the anti-icing system on the aircraft. There are no fatalities.
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