The temperature on October 29, 1868 was about 8.9 °C. There was 4 mm of rain. The air pressure was 11 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the west. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 81%. 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).
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).
May 16 » The United States Senate fails to convict President Andrew Johnson by one vote.
June 23 » Christopher Latham Sholes received a patent for an invention he called the "Type-Writer".
September 25 » The Imperial Russian steam frigate Alexander Nevsky is shipwrecked off Jutland while carrying Grand Duke Alexei Alexandrovich of Russia.
October 7 » Cornell University holds opening day ceremonies; initial student enrollment is 412, the highest at any American university to that date.
October 10 » The Ten Years' War begins against Spanish rule in Cuba.
December 24 » The Greek Presidential Guard is established as the royal escort by King George I.
Day of marriage May 7, 1892
The temperature on May 7, 1892 was about 8.5 °C. There was 0.5 mm of rain. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 84%. 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.
April 15 » The General Electric Company is formed.
July 4 » Western Samoa changes the International Date Line, causing Monday (July 4) to occur twice, resulting in a year with 367 days.
September 8 » The Pledge of Allegiance is first recited.
September 9 » Amalthea, third moon of Jupiter is discovered by Edward Emerson Barnard.
November 12 » Pudge Heffelfinger becomes the first professional American football player on record, participating in his first paid game for the Allegheny Athletic Association.
December 17 » First issue of Vogue is published.
Day of death February 18, 1961
The temperature on February 18, 1961 was between 0.7 °C and 12.2 °C and averaged 6.2 °C. There was 4.8 hours of sunshine (47%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
January 25 » In Washington, D.C., President John F. Kennedy delivers the first live presidential television news conference.
January 31 » Project Mercury: Mercury-Redstone 2: Ham the Chimp travels into outer space.
May 9 » FCC Chairman Newton N. Minow gives his Wasteland Speech.
May 19 » At Silchar Railway Station, Assam, 11 Bengalis die when police open fire on protesters demanding state recognition of Bengali language in the Bengali Language Movement.
May 31 » In Moscow City Court, the Rokotov–Faibishenko show trial begins, despite the Khrushchev Thaw to reverse Stalinist elements in Soviet society.
October 29 » Syria exits from the United Arab Republic.
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