The temperature on November 30, 1870 was about -1.6 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the east-northeast. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 84%. 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 25 » Hiram Rhodes Revels, a Republican from Mississippi, is sworn into the United States Senate, becoming the first African American ever to sit in Congress.
April 13 » The New York City Metropolitan Museum of Art is founded.
August 6 » Franco-Prussian War: The Battle of Spicheren is fought, resulting in a Prussian victory.
August 6 » Franco-Prussian War: The Battle of Wörth results in a decisive Prussian victory.
August 16 » Franco-Prussian War: The Battle of Mars-la-Tour is fought, resulting in a Prussian victory.
December 12 » Joseph H. Rainey of South Carolina becomes the second black U.S. congressman.
Day of marriage May 16, 1896
The temperature on May 16, 1896 was about 9.7 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 73%. Source: KNMI
February 1 » La bohème premieres in Turin at the Teatro Regio (Turin), conducted by the young Arturo Toscanini.
February 21 » An Englishman raised in Australia, Bob Fitzsimmons, fought an Irishman, Peter Maher, in an American promoted event which technically took place in Mexico, winning the 1896 World Heavyweight Championship in boxing.
March 1 » Henri Becquerel discovers radioactive decay.
August 16 » Skookum Jim Mason, George Carmack and Dawson Charlie discover gold in a tributary of the Klondike River in Canada, setting off the Klondike Gold Rush.
September 21 » Anglo-Egyptian conquest of Sudan: British forces under the command of Horatio Kitchener take Dongola.
November 17 » The Western Pennsylvania Hockey League, which later became the first ice hockey league to openly trade and hire players, began play at Pittsburgh's Schenley Park Casino.
Day of death October 30, 1900
The temperature on October 30, 1900 was about 8.9 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 93%. Source: KNMI
January 2 » American statesman and diplomat John Hay announces the Open Door Policy to promote trade with China.
February 18 » Second Boer War: Imperial forces suffer their worst single-day loss of life on Bloody Sunday, the first day of the Battle of Paardeberg.
April 5 » Archaeologists in Knossos, Crete, discover a large cache of clay tablets with hieroglyphic writing in a script they call Linear B.
July 9 » The Federation of Australia is given royal assent.
July 29 » In Italy, King Umberto I of Italy is assassinated by the anarchist Gaetano Bresci.
December 18 » The Upper Ferntree Gully to Gembrook, Victoria Narrow-gauge (2ft 6 in or 762mm) Railway (now the Puffing Billy Railway) in Victoria, Australia is opened for traffic.
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