The temperature on May 2, 1867 was about 10.4 °C. The air pressure was 5 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the northwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 66%. Source: KNMI
From June 1, 1866 till June 4, 1868 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt - Heemskerk with the prime ministers Mr. J.P.J.A. graaf Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt (AR) and Mr. J. Heemskerk Azn. (conservatief).
January 15 » Forty people die when ice covering the boating lake at Regent's Park, London, collapses.
March 29 » Queen Victoria gives Royal Assent to the British North America Act which establishes Canada on July 1.
April 1 » Singapore becomes a British crown colony.
June 8 » Coronation of Franz Joseph as King of Hungary following the Austro-Hungarian compromise (Ausgleich).
June 19 » Maximilian I of the Second Mexican Empire is executed by a firing squad in Querétaro, Querétaro.
October 21 » The Medicine Lodge Treaty is signed by southern Great Plains Indian leaders. The treaty requires Native American Plains tribes to relocate to a reservation in western Oklahoma.
Day of marriage August 31, 1891
The temperature on August 31, 1891 was about 14.1 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 83%. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from April 21, 1888 to August 21, 1891 the cabinet Mackay, with Mr. A. baron Mackay (AR) as prime minister.
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.
January 31 » History of Portugal: The first attempt at a Portuguese republican revolution breaks out in the northern city of Porto.
March 3 » Shoshone National Forest is established as the first national forest in the US and world.
March 10 » Almon Strowger patents the Strowger switch, a device which led to the automation of telephone circuit switching.
May 5 » The Music Hall in New York City (later known as Carnegie Hall) has its grand opening and first public performance, with Tchaikovsky as the guest conductor.
May 16 » The International Electrotechnical Exhibition opens in Frankfurt, Germany, and will feature the world's first long-distance transmission of high-power, three-phase electric current (the most common form today).
May 20 » History of cinema: The first public display of Thomas Edison's prototype kinetoscope.
Day of death February 3, 1949
The temperature on February 3, 1949 was between -7.7 °C and 3.1 °C and averaged -3.5 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 7.9 hours of sunshine (86%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
From August 7, 1948 till March 15, 1951 the Netherlands had a cabinet Drees - Van Schaik with the prime ministers Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) and Mr. J.R.H. van Schaik (KVP).
February 17 » Chaim Weizmann begins his term as the first President of Israel.
June 8 » Helen Keller, Dorothy Parker, Danny Kaye, Fredric March, John Garfield, Paul Muni and Edward G. Robinson are named in an FBI report as Communist Party members.
July 1 » The merger of two princely states of India, Cochin and Travancore, into the state of Thiru-Kochi (later re-organized as Kerala) in the Indian Union ends more than 1,000 years of princely rule by the Cochin royal family.
October 1 » The People's Republic of China is established.
October 7 » The communist German Democratic Republic (East Germany) is formed.
November 3 » Chinese Civil War: The Battle of Dengbu Island occurs.
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