The temperature on August 6, 1870 was about 22.0 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 5 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the west-northwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 69%. 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.
February 25 » Hiram Rhodes Revels, a Republican from Mississippi, is sworn into the United States Senate, becoming the first African American ever to sit in Congress.
August 2 » Tower Subway, the world's first underground tube railway, opens in London, England, United Kingdom.
September 4 » Emperor Napoleon III of France is deposed and the Third Republic is declared.
October 7 » Franco-Prussian War: Léon Gambetta escapes the siege of Paris in a hot-air balloon.
November 1 » In the United States, the Weather Bureau (later renamed the National Weather Service) makes its first official meteorological forecast.
Day of death May 7, 1903
The temperature on May 7, 1903 was between 5.0 °C and 14.8 °C and averaged 9.9 °C. There was 2.2 hours of sunshine (14%). Source: KNMI
February 11 » Anton Bruckner's 9th Symphony receives its first performance in Vienna, Austria.
April 26 » Atlético Madrid Association football club is founded
August 3 » Macedonian rebels in Kruševo proclaim the Kruševo Republic, which exists for only ten days before Ottoman Turks lay waste to the town.
September 27 » The Wreck of the Old 97, an American rail disaster that became the subject of a popular ballad.
October 31 » The Purdue Wreck, a railroad train collision in Indianapolis, kills 17 people, including 14 players of the Purdue University football team.
November 17 » The Russian Social Democratic Labour Party splits into two groups: The Bolsheviks (Russian for "majority") and Mensheviks (Russian for "minority").
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