The temperature on June 17, 1870 was about 19.7 °C. There was 2 mm of rain. The air pressure was 13 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 70%. 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).
February 23 » Reconstruction Era: Post-U.S. Civil War military control of Mississippi ends and it is readmitted to the Union.
February 27 » The current flag of Japan is first adopted as the national flag for Japanese merchant ships.
July 15 » Rupert's Land and the North-Western Territory are transferred to Canada from the Hudson's Bay Company, and the province of Manitoba and the Northwest Territories are established from these vast territories.
July 18 » The First Vatican Council decrees the dogma of papal infallibility.
August 2 » Tower Subway, the world's first underground tube railway, opens in London, England, United Kingdom.
September 3 » Franco-Prussian War: The Siege of Metz begins, resulting in a decisive Prussian victory on October 23.
Day of marriage May 19, 1894
The temperature on May 19, 1894 was about 9.5 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 59%. 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.
In The Netherlands , there was from May 9, 1894 to July 27, 1897 the cabinet Roëll, with Jonkheer mr. J. Roëll (oud-liberaal) as prime minister.
May 1 » Coxey's Army, the first significant American protest march, arrives in Washington, D.C.
June 28 » Labor Day becomes an official US holiday.
July 4 » The short-lived Republic of Hawaii is proclaimed by Sanford B. Dole.
August 1 » The First Sino-Japanese War erupts between Japan and China over Korea.
August 25 » Kitasato Shibasaburō discovers the infectious agent of the bubonic plague and publishes his findings in The Lancet.
September 15 » First Sino-Japanese War: Japan defeats Qing dynasty China in the Battle of Pyongyang.
Day of death August 11, 1956
The temperature on August 11, 1956 was between 12.1 °C and 18.6 °C and averaged 15.7 °C. There was 8.9 mm of rain during 6.7 hours. There was 0.2 hours of sunshine (1%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
June 30 » A TWA Super Constellation and a United Airlines DC-7 collide above the Grand Canyon in Arizona and crash, killing all 128 on board both airliners.
November 1 » The Indian states Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, and Mysore are formally created under the States Reorganisation Act; Kanyakumari district is joined to Tamil Nadu from Kerala.
November 7 » Hungarian Revolution: János Kádár returns to Budapest in a Soviet armored convoy, officially taking office as the next Hungarian leader. By this point, most armed resistance has been defeated.
November 7 » Suez Crisis: The United Nations General Assembly adopts a resolution calling for the United Kingdom, France and Israel to immediately withdraw their troops from Egypt.
December 9 » Trans-Canada Air Lines Flight 810, a Canadair North Star, crashes near Hope, British Columbia, Canada, killing all 62 people on board.
December 31 » The Romanian Television network begins its first broadcast in Bucharest.
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