The temperature on February 22, 1867 was about 8.7 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 10 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the west. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 89%. 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 15 » Forty people die when ice covering the boating lake at Regent's Park, London, collapses.
March 30 » Alaska is purchased from Russia for $7.2 million, about 2-cent/acre ($4.19/km²), by United States Secretary of State William H. Seward.
June 8 » Coronation of Franz Joseph as King of Hungary following the Austro-Hungarian compromise (Ausgleich).
October 18 » United States takes possession of Alaska after purchasing it from Russia for $7.2million. Celebrated annually in the state as Alaska Day.
November 9 » Tokugawa shogunate hands power back to the Emperor of Japan, starting the Meiji Restoration.
December 4 » Former Minnesota farmer Oliver Hudson Kelley founds the Order of the Patrons of Husbandry (better known today as the Grange).
Day of marriage May 17, 1895
The temperature on May 17, 1895 was about 7.4 °C. There was 2 mm of rain. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 85%. Source: KNMI
January 13 » First Italo-Ethiopian War: the war's opening battle, the Battle of Coatit, occurs; it is an Italian victory.
May 25 » The Republic of Formosa is formed, with Tang Jingsong as its president.
June 20 » The Kiel Canal, crossing the base of the Jutland peninsula and the busiest artificial waterway in the world, is officially opened.
October 8 » Korean Empress Myeongseong is assassinated by Japanese infiltrators.
October 21 » The Republic of Formosa collapses as Japanese forces invade.
November 5 » George B. Selden is granted the first U.S. patent for an automobile.
Day of death February 15, 1959
The temperature on February 15, 1959 was between -2.7 °C and 1.2 °C and averaged -0.7 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
February 17 » Project Vanguard: Vanguard 2: The first weather satellite is launched to measure cloud-cover distribution.
June 20 » A rare June hurricane strikes Canada's Gulf of St. Lawrence killing 35.
July 15 » The steel strike of 1959 begins, leading to significant importation of foreign steel for the first time in United States history.
September 25 » Solomon Bandaranaike, Prime Minister of Sri Lanka, is mortally wounded by a Buddhist monk, Talduwe Somarama, and dies the next day.
November 2 » The first section of the M1 motorway, the first inter-urban motorway in the United Kingdom, is opened between the present junctions 5 and 18, along with the M10 motorway and M45 motorway.
December 13 » Archbishop Makarios III becomes the first President of Cyprus.
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