The temperature on December 15, 1869 was about 7.3 °C. There was 3 mm of rain. The air pressure was 29 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 80%. 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 5 » The largest alluvial gold nugget in history, called the "Welcome Stranger", is found in Moliagul, Victoria, Australia.
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 10 » The First Transcontinental Railroad, linking the eastern and western United States, is completed at Promontory Summit, Utah with the golden spike.
August 16 » Battle of Acosta Ñu: A Paraguayan battalion made up of children is massacred by the Brazilian Army during the Paraguayan War.
October 5 » The Saxby Gale devastates the Bay of Fundy region in Canada.
December 7 » American outlaw Jesse James commits his first confirmed bank robbery in Gallatin, Missouri.
Day of marriage May 9, 1907
The temperature on May 9, 1907 was between 6.7 °C and 19.2 °C and averaged 13.7 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. There was 9.5 hours of sunshine (62%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from August 17, 1905 to February 11, 1908 the cabinet De Meester, with Mr. Th. de Meester (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
March 24 » The first issue of the Georgian Bolshevik newspaper Dro is published.
July 7 » Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. staged his first Follies on the roof of the New York Theater in New York City.
July 29 » Sir Robert Baden-Powell sets up the Brownsea Island Scout camp in Poole Harbour on the south coast of England. The camp runs from August 1 to August 9 and is regarded as the foundation of the Scouting movement.
August 1 » The start of the first Scout camp on Brownsea Island, the origin of the worldwide Scouting movement.
August 15 » Ordination in Constantinople of Fr. Raphael Morgan, the first African-American Orthodox priest, "Priest-Apostolic" to America and the West Indies.
October 21 » The 1907 Qaratog earthquake hits the borders of Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, killing between 12,000 and 15,000 people.
Day of death December 27, 1961
The temperature on December 27, 1961 was between -10.2 °C and -2.2 °C and averaged -5.9 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 6.1 hours of sunshine (79%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. Source: KNMI
January 3 » A protest by agricultural workers in Baixa de Cassanje, Portuguese Angola, turns into a revolt, opening the Angolan War of Independence, the first of the Portuguese Colonial Wars.
January 8 » In France a referendum supports Charles de Gaulle's policies in Algeria.
January 24 » Goldsboro B-52 crash: A bomber carrying two H-bombs breaks up in mid-air over North Carolina. The uranium core of one weapon remains lost.
March 24 » Quebec Board of the French Language is established.
May 21 » American civil rights movement: Alabama Governor John Malcolm Patterson declares martial law in an attempt to restore order after race riots break out.
October 1 » East and West Cameroon merge to form the Federal Republic of Cameroon.
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