The temperature on March 28, 1871 was about 0.8 °C. There was 2 mm of rain. The air pressure was 4 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the north-northeast. The atmospheric humidity was 92%. 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 27 » The first international rugby football match, when Scotland defeats England in Edinburgh at Raeburn Place.
May 21 » French troops invade the Paris Commune and engage its residents in street fighting. By the close of "Bloody Week", some 20,000 communards have been killed and 38,000 arrested.
May 28 » The Paris Commune falls after two months.
September 20 » Bishop John Coleridge Patteson, first bishop of Melanesia, is martyred on Nukapu, now in the Solomon Islands.
October 8 » The Great Chicago Fire and the much deadlier Peshtigo Fire break out.
Day of marriage January 13, 1895
The temperature on January 13, 1895 was about -3.5 °C. The airpressure was 74 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 74%. Source: KNMI
February 9 » William G. Morgan creates a game called Mintonette, which soon comes to be referred to as volleyball.
April 3 » The trial in the libel case brought by Oscar Wilde begins, eventually resulting in his imprisonment on charges of homosexuality.
June 11 » Paris–Bordeaux–Paris, sometimes called the first automobile race in history or the "first motor race", takes place.
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.
November 5 » George B. Selden is granted the first U.S. patent for an automobile.
December 28 » The Lumière brothers perform for their first paying audience at the Grand Cafe in Boulevard des Capucines.
Day of death October 16, 1959
The temperature on October 16, 1959 was between 5.3 °C and 20.0 °C and averaged 11.9 °C. There was 9.0 hours of sunshine (84%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east. Source: KNMI
February 19 » The United Kingdom grants Cyprus independence, which is formally proclaimed on August 16, 1960.
May 19 » The North Vietnamese Army establishes Group 559, whose responsibility is to determine how to maintain supply lines to South Vietnam; the resulting route is the Ho Chi Minh trail.
July 21 » Elijah Jerry "Pumpsie" Green becomes the first African-American to play for the Boston Red Sox, the last team to integrate. He came in as a pinch runner for Vic Wertz and stayed in as shortstop in a 2–1 loss to the Chicago White Sox.
September 18 » Vanguard 3 is launched into Earth orbit.
September 27 » Typhoon Vera kills nearly 5,000 people in Japan.
November 2 » Quiz show scandals: Twenty-One game show contestant Charles Van Doren admits to a Congressional committee that he had been given questions and answers in advance.
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