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).
January 15 » A political cartoon for the first time symbolizes the Democratic Party with a donkey ("A Live Jackass Kicking a Dead Lion" by Thomas Nast for Harper's Weekly).
June 26 » The Christian holiday of Christmas is declared a federal holiday in the United States.
August 2 » Tower Subway, the world's first underground tube railway, opens in London, England, United Kingdom.
August 8 » The Republic of Ploiești, a failed Radical-Liberal rising against Domnitor Carol of Romania.
October 27 » Franco-Prussian War: Marshal Bazaine surrenders to Prussian forces at the conclusion of the Siege of Metz along with 140,000 French soldiers.
December 12 » Joseph H. Rainey of South Carolina becomes the second black U.S. congressman.
Day of marriage May 16, 1901
The temperature on May 16, 1901 was between 7.9 °C and 14.8 °C and averaged 10.0 °C. There was 2.3 hours of sunshine (15%). Source: KNMI
January 1 » The British colonies of New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, South Australia, Tasmania, and Western Australia federate as the Commonwealth of Australia; Edmund Barton is appointed the first Prime Minister.
August 28 » Silliman University is founded in the Philippines. It is the first American private school in the country.
September 14 » U.S. President William McKinley dies after being mortally wounded on September 6 by anarchist Leon Czolgosz and is succeeded by Vice President Theodore Roosevelt.
October 12 » President Theodore Roosevelt officially renames the "Executive Mansion" to the White House.
December 3 » In a State of the Union message, U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt delivers a 20,000-word speech to the House of Representatives asking Congress to curb the power of trusts "within reasonable limits".
December 12 » Guglielmo Marconi receives the first transatlantic radio signal (the letter "S" [***] in Morse Code), at Signal Hill in St John's, Newfoundland.
Day of death January 26, 1954
The temperature on January 26, 1954 was between -10.4 °C and -3.6 °C and averaged -6.7 °C. There was 7.1 hours of sunshine (81%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the east. Source: KNMI
May 6 » Roger Bannister becomes the first person to run the mile in under four minutes.
June 12 » Pope Pius XII canonises Dominic Savio, who was 14 years old at the time of his death, as a saint, making him at the time the youngest unmartyred saint in the Roman Catholic Church. In 2017, Francisco and Jacinta Marto, aged ten and nine at the time of their deaths, are declared saints.
June 27 » The FIFA World Cup quarterfinal match between Hungary and Brazil, highly anticipated to be exciting, instead turns violent, with three players ejected and further fighting continuing after the game.
July 15 » First flight of the Boeing 367-80, prototype for both the Boeing 707 and C-135 series.
December 4 » The first Burger King is opened in Miami, Florida.
December 23 » First successful kidney transplant is performed by J. Hartwell Harrison and Joseph Murray.
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