The temperature on December 26, 1871 was about 3.3 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. The air pressure was 3 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the south-southwest. The atmospheric humidity was 89%. 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).
In The Netherlands , there was from January 4, 1871 to July 6, 1872 the cabinet Thorbecke III, with Mr. J.R. Thorbecke (liberaal) as prime minister.
March 26 » The elections of Commune council of the Paris Commune are held.
March 28 » The Paris Commune is formally established in Paris.
October 10 » Chicago burns after a barn accident. The fire lasts from October 8–10.
October 12 » The British in India enact the Criminal Tribes Act, naming many local communities "Criminal Tribes".
October 24 » An estimated 17 to 20 Chinese immigrants are lynched in Los Angeles, California.
December 26 » Thespis, the first Gilbert and Sullivan collaboration, debuts. It does modestly well, but the two would not collaborate again for four years and the score has been lost.
Day of marriage May 18, 1901
The temperature on May 18, 1901 was between 2.4 °C and 13.9 °C and averaged 8.2 °C. There was 6.4 hours of sunshine (40%). Source: KNMI
February 20 » The legislature of Hawaii Territory convenes for the first time.
April 25 » New York becomes the first U.S. state to require automobile license plates.
August 21 » Six hundred American school teachers, Thomasites, arrived in Manila on the USAT Thomas.
September 6 » Leon Czolgosz, an unemployed anarchist, shoots and fatally wounds US President William McKinley at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York.
October 29 » In Amherst, Massachusetts, nurse Jane Toppan is arrested for murdering the Davis family of Boston with an overdose of morphine.
November 13 » The 1901 Caister lifeboat disaster.
Day of death December 16, 1924
The temperature on December 16, 1924 was between 0.6 °C and 4.7 °C and averaged 3.1 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from September 19, 1922 to August 4, 1925 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck II, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
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