The temperature on November 4, 1869 was about 6.6 °C. There was 3 mm of rain. The air pressure was 21 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the west-northwest. The airpressure was 74 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 78%. 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).
April 28 » Chinese and Irish laborers for the Central Pacific Railroad working on the First Transcontinental Railroad lay ten miles of track in one day, a feat which has never been matched.
May 4 » The Naval Battle of Hakodate is fought in Japan.
May 10 » The First Transcontinental Railroad, linking the eastern and western United States, is completed at Promontory Summit, Utah with the golden spike.
May 15 » Women's suffrage: In New York, Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton form the National Woman Suffrage Association.
May 26 » Boston University is chartered by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
November 22 » In Dumbarton, Scotland, the clipper Cutty Sark is launched
Day of marriage May 18, 1895
The temperature on May 18, 1895 was about 7.5 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 94%. Source: KNMI
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.
April 17 » The Treaty of Shimonoseki between China and Japan is signed. This marks the end of the First Sino-Japanese War, and the defeated Qing Empire is forced to renounce its claims on Korea and to concede the southern portion of the Fengtien province, Taiwan and the Pescadores Islands to Japan.
August 31 » German Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin patents his navigable balloon.
September 3 » John Brallier becomes the first openly professional American football player, when he was paid US$10 by David Berry, to play for the Latrobe Athletic Association in a 12-0 win over the Jeanette Athletic Association.
November 5 » George B. Selden is granted the first U.S. patent for an automobile.
December 28 » The Lumière brothers perform for their first paying audience at the Grand Cafe in Boulevard des Capucines.
Day of death April 18, 1955
The temperature on April 18, 1955 was between 2.2 °C and 11.1 °C and averaged 6.6 °C. There was 9.6 hours of sunshine (68%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north. Source: KNMI
January 7 » Contralto Marian Anderson becomes the first person of color to perform at the Metropolitan Opera in Giuseppe Verdi's Un ballo in maschera.
April 24 » The Bandung Conference ends: Twenty-nine non-aligned nations of Asia and Africa finish a meeting that condemns colonialism, racism, and the Cold War.
May 5 » The General Treaty, by which France, Britain and the United States recognize the sovereignty of West Germany, comes into effect.
July 27 » The Austrian State Treaty restores Austrian sovereignty.
September 16 » A Zulu-class submarine becomes the first to launch a ballistic missile.
September 20 » The Treaty on Relations between the USSR and the GDR is signed.
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