The temperature on December 14, 1873 was about 3.5 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the southwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 97%. Source: KNMI
From July 6, 1872 till August 27, 1874 the Netherlands had a cabinet De Vries - Fransen van de Putte with the prime ministers Mr. G. de Vries Azn. (liberaal) and I.D. Fransen van de Putte (liberaal).
March 1 » E. Remington and Sons in Ilion, New York begins production of the first practical typewriter.
April 1 » The White Star steamer RMSAtlantic sinks off Nova Scotia, killing 547 in one of the worst marine disasters of the 19th century.
May 20 » Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis receive a U.S. patent for blue jeans with copper rivets.
August 23 » Albert Bridge in Chelsea, London opens.
August 30 » Austrian explorers Julius von Payer and Karl Weyprecht discover the archipelago of Franz Josef Land in the Arctic Sea.
November 22 » The French steamer SS Ville du Havre sinks in 12 minutes after colliding with the Scottish iron clipper Loch Earn in the Atlantic, with a loss of 226 lives.
Day of marriage September 21, 1895
The temperature on September 21, 1895 was about 13.5 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 80%. Source: KNMI
January 13 » First Italo-Ethiopian War: the war's opening battle, the Battle of Coatit, occurs; it is an Italian victory.
February 9 » William G. Morgan creates a game called Mintonette, which soon comes to be referred to as volleyball.
February 24 » Revolution breaks out in Baire, a town near Santiago de Cuba, beginning the Cuban War of Independence, that ends with the Spanish–American War in 1898.
March 22 » Before the Société pour L'Encouragement à l'Industrie, brothers Auguste and Louis Lumière demonstrate movie film technology publicly for the first time.
October 8 » Korean Empress Myeongseong is assassinated by Japanese infiltrators.
November 5 » George B. Selden is granted the first U.S. patent for an automobile.
Day of death June 2, 1952
The temperature on June 2, 1952 was between 11.0 °C and 17.4 °C and averaged 14.3 °C. There was 1.3 mm of rain during 1.1 hours. There was 5.7 hours of sunshine (35%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
February 15 » King George VI of the United Kingdom is buried in St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle.
March 10 » Fulgencio Batista leads a successful coup in Cuba.
April 21 » Secretary's Day (now Administrative Professionals' Day) is first celebrated.
April 28 » The Sino-Japanese Peace Treaty (Treaty of Taipei) is signed in Taipei, Taiwan between Japan and the Republic of China to officially end the Second Sino-Japanese War.
May 7 » The concept of the integrated circuit, the basis for all modern computers, is first published by Geoffrey Dummer.
September 1 » The Old Man and the Sea, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Ernest Hemingway, is first published.
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