The temperature on August 9, 1873 was about 17.7 °C. There was 1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 7 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the west-northwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 70%. Source: KNMI
From July 6, 1872 till August 27, 1874 the Netherlands had a cabinet De Vries - Fransen van de Putte with the prime ministers Mr. G. de Vries Azn. (liberaal) and I.D. Fransen van de Putte (liberaal).
May 9 » Der Krach: Vienna stock market crash heralds the Long Depression.
June 5 » Sultan Barghash bin Said of Zanzibar closes the great slave market under the terms of a treaty with Great Britain.
July 21 » At Adair, Iowa, Jesse James and the James–Younger Gang pull off the first successful train robbery in the American Old West.
August 4 » American Indian Wars: While protecting a railroad survey party in Montana, the United States 7th Cavalry, under Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer clashes for the first time with the Cheyenne and Lakota people near the Tongue River; only one man on each side is killed.
October 3 » Chief Kintpuash and companions are hanged for their part in the Modoc War of northern California.
October 9 » A meeting at the U.S. Naval Academy establishes the U.S. Naval Institute.
Day of marriage May 14, 1898
The temperature on May 14, 1898 was about 10.5 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 71%. Source: KNMI
February 15 » The battleship USSMaine explodes and sinks in Havana harbor in Cuba, killing 274. This event leads the United States to declare war on Spain.
July 3 » A Spanish squadron, led by Pascual Cervera y Topete, is defeated by an American squadron under William T. Sampson in the Battle of Santiago de Cuba.
August 13 » Spanish–American War: Spanish and American forces engage in a mock battle for Manila, after which the Spanish commander surrendered in order to keep the city out of Filipino rebel hands.
August 29 » The Goodyear tire company is founded.
November 10 » Beginning of the Wilmington insurrection of 1898, the only instance of a municipal government being overthrown in United States history.
December 26 » Marie and Pierre Curie announce the isolation of radium.
Day of death January 15, 1953
The average temperature on January 15, 1953 was -0.7 °C. There was 0.7 mm of rain during 2.6 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
January 3 » Frances P. Bolton and her son, Oliver from Ohio, become the first mother and son to serve simultaneously in the U.S. Congress.
January 13 » An article appears in Pravda accusing some of the most prestigious and prominent doctors, mostly Jews, in the Soviet Union of taking part in a vast plot to poison members of the top Soviet political and military leadership.
March 3 » A De Havilland Comet (Canadian Pacific Air Lines) crashes in Karachi, Pakistan, killing 11.
May 4 » Ernest Hemingway wins the Pulitzer Prize for The Old Man and the Sea.
June 18 » A United States Air Force C-124 crashes and burns near Tachikawa, Japan, killing 129.
October 1 » Andhra State is formed, consisting of a Telugu-speaking area carved out of India's Madras State.
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