The temperature on May 6, 1869 was about 13.8 °C. There was 5 mm of rain. The air pressure was 5 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 74 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 94%. 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 23 » Second Boer War: The Battle of Spion Kop between the forces of the South African Republic and the Orange Free State and British forces ends in a British defeat.
February 9 » The Davis Cup competition is established.
February 23 » Second Boer War: During the Battle of the Tugela Heights, the first British attempt to take Hart's Hill fails.
May 17 » The children's novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum, is first published in the United States. The first copy is given to the author's sister.
May 24 » Second Boer War: The United Kingdom annexes the Orange Free State.
June 25 » The Taoist monk Wang Yuanlu discovers the Dunhuang manuscripts, a cache of ancient texts that are of great historical and religious significance, in the Mogao Caves of Dunhuang, China.
Day of death March 24, 1958
The temperature on March 24, 1958 was between -4.1 °C and 7.3 °C and averaged 1.7 °C. There was 8.8 hours of sunshine (71%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the east. Source: KNMI
March 26 » The United States Army launches Explorer 3.
April 13 » American pianist Van Cliburn is awarded first prize at the inaugural International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow.
April 26 » Final run of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's Royal Blue from Washington, D.C., to New York City after 68years, the first U.S. passenger train to use electric locomotives.
May 13 » May 1958 crisis: A group of French military officers lead a coup in Algiers demanding that a government of national unity be formed with Charles de Gaulle at its head in order to defend French control of Algeria.
August 18 » Vladimir Nabokov's controversial novel Lolita is published in the United States.
December 5 » Subscriber Trunk Dialling (STD) is inaugurated in the United Kingdom by Queen Elizabeth II when she speaks to the Lord Provost in a call from Bristol to Edinburgh.
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