The temperature on September 16, 1869 was about 12.7 °C. There was 4 mm of rain. The air pressure was 35 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the west-northwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 90%. 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).
April 17 » Morelos is admitted as the 27th state of Mexico.
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 4 » The Naval Battle of Hakodate is fought in Japan.
June 27 » The Republic of Ezo on the island of Hokkaido ends after being defeated by Japanese Imperial troops.
August 16 » Battle of Acosta Ñu: A Paraguayan battalion made up of children is massacred by the Brazilian Army during the Paraguayan War.
August 29 » The Mount Washington Cog Railway opens, making it the world's first mountain-climbing rack railway.
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.
March 2 » The Battle of Adwa: The Italian Army defeated by the Ethiopian Army in Adwa, Tigray, Ethiopia.
June 28 » An explosion in the Newton Coal Company's Twin Shaft Mine in Pittston, Pennsylvania results in a massive cave-in that kills 58 miners.
July 9 » William Jennings Bryan delivers his Cross of Gold speech advocating bimetallism at the 1896 Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
Day of death November 5, 1953
The temperature on November 5, 1953 was between 2.1 °C and 7.8 °C and averaged 5.4 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 0.8 hours. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south east. Source: KNMI
March 18 » An earthquake hits western Turkey, killing 265 people.
April 13 » CIA director Allen Dulles launches the mind-control program Project MKUltra.
June 30 » The first Chevrolet Corvette rolls off the assembly line in Flint, Michigan.
July 7 » Ernesto "Che" Guevara sets out on a trip through Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, and El Salvador.
August 12 » The 7.2 Ms Ionian earthquake shakes the southern Ionian Islands with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme). Between 445 and 800 people are killed.
December 6 » Vladimir Nabokov completes his controversial novel Lolita.
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