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.
March 28 » The Paris Commune is formally established in Paris.
July 20 » British Columbia joins the confederation of Canada.
September 20 » Bishop John Coleridge Patteson, first bishop of Melanesia, is martyred on Nukapu, now in the Solomon Islands.
October 24 » An estimated 17 to 20 Chinese immigrants are lynched in Los Angeles, California.
Day of death August 4, 1959
The temperature on August 4, 1959 was between 12.4 °C and 20.9 °C and averaged 16.4 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 0.3 hours. There was 3.2 hours of sunshine (21%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. Source: KNMI
January 8 » Charles de Gaulle is proclaimed as the first President of the French Fifth Republic.
February 6 » At Cape Canaveral, Florida, the first successful test firing of a Titan intercontinental ballistic missile is accomplished.
February 20 » The Avro Arrow program to design and manufacture supersonic jet fighters in Canada is cancelled by the Diefenbaker government amid much political debate.
June 8 » USSBarbero and the United States Postal Service attempt the delivery of mail via Missile Mail.
June 30 » A United States Air Force F-100 Super Sabre from Kadena Air Base, Okinawa, crashes into a nearby elementary school, killing 11 students plus six residents from the local neighborhood.
September 16 » The first successful photocopier, the Xerox 914, is introduced in a demonstration on live television from New York City.
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