The temperature on August 2, 1867 was about 16.3 °C. The air pressure was 4 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the north-northeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 66%. Source: KNMI
From June 1, 1866 till June 4, 1868 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt - Heemskerk with the prime ministers Mr. J.P.J.A. graaf Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt (AR) and Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief).
January 8 » African American men are granted the right to vote in Washington, D.C.
January 15 » Forty people die when ice covering the boating lake at Regent's Park, London, collapses.
March 2 » The U.S. Congress passes the first Reconstruction Act.
March 29 » Queen Victoria gives Royal Assent to the British North America Act which establishes Canada on July 1.
July 1 » The British North America Act takes effect as the Province of Canada, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia join into confederation to create the modern nation of Canada. Sir John A. Macdonald is sworn in as the first Prime Minister of Canada. This date is commemorated annually in Canada as Canada Day, a national holiday.
August 28 » The United States takes possession of the (at this point unoccupied) Midway Atoll.
Day of marriage December 2, 1892
The temperature on December 2, 1892 was about 1.0 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 94%. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from August 21, 1891 to May 9, 1894 the cabinet Van Tienhoven, with Mr. G. van Tienhoven (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
June 30 » The Homestead Strike begins near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
July 26 » Dadabhai Naoroji is elected as the first Indian Member of Parliament in Britain.
August 4 » The father and stepmother of Lizzie Borden are found murdered in their Fall River, Massachusetts home. She was tried and acquitted for the crimes a year later.
September 28 » The first night game for American football takes place in a contest between Wyoming Seminary and Mansfield State Normal.
October 26 » Ida B. Wells publishes Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases.
December 9 » English football club Newcastle United is founded.
Day of death March 4, 1943
The temperature on March 4, 1943 was between -0.7 °C and 10.2 °C and averaged 4.6 °C. There was 5.1 hours of sunshine (46%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-southeast. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from July 27, 1941 to February 23, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy II, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
January 14 » World War II: Japan begins Operation Ke, the successful operation to evacuate its forces from Guadalcanal during the Guadalcanal Campaign.
January 23 » World War II: Troops of the British Eighth Army capture Tripoli in Libya from the German–Italian Panzer Army.
February 2 » World War II: The Battle of Stalingrad comes to an end when Soviet troops accept the surrender of the last organized German troops in the city.
April 16 » Albert Hofmann accidentally discovers the hallucinogenic effects of the research drug LSD. He intentionally takes the drug three days later on April 19.
June 1 » BOAC Flight 777 is shot down over the Bay of Biscay by German Junkers Ju 88s, killing British actor Leslie Howard and leading to speculation that it was actually an attempt to kill British Prime Minister Winston Churchill.
August 31 » USSHarmon, the first U.S. Navy ship to be named after a black person, is commissioned.
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