The temperature on June 11, 1867 was about 20.9 °C. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the northeast. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 44%. 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).
February 13 » Work begins on the covering of the Senne, burying Brussels's primary river and creating the modern central boulevards.
March 29 » Queen Victoria gives Royal Assent to the British North America Act which establishes Canada on July 1.
August 28 » The United States takes possession of the (at this point unoccupied) Midway Atoll.
October 18 » United States takes possession of Alaska after purchasing it from Russia for $7.2million. Celebrated annually in the state as Alaska Day.
November 9 » Tokugawa shogunate hands power back to the Emperor of Japan, starting the Meiji Restoration.
November 23 » The Manchester Martyrs are hanged in Manchester, England, for killing a police officer while freeing two Irish Republican Brotherhood members from custody.
Day of marriage May 13, 1911
The temperature on May 13, 1911 was between 11.4 °C and 22.5 °C and averaged 16.9 °C. There was 7.0 hours of sunshine (45%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south-southeast. Source: KNMI
January 30 » The destroyer USSTerry makes the first airplane rescue at sea saving the life of Douglas McCurdy ten miles from Havana, Cuba.
April 2 » The Australian Bureau of Statistics conducts the country's first national census.
April 8 » Dutch physicist Heike Kamerlingh Onnes discovers superconductivity.
April 29 » Tsinghua University, one of mainland China's leading universities, is founded.
May 15 » More than 300 Chinese immigrants are killed in the Torreón massacre when the forces of the Mexican Revolution led by Emilio Madero take the city of Torreón from the Federales.
October 9 » An accidental bomb explosion triggers the Wuchang Uprising against the Chinese monarchy.
Day of death February 8, 1914
The temperature on February 8, 1914 was between 7.1 °C and 12.9 °C and averaged 9.4 °C. There was 1.0 hours of sunshine (11%). The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from August 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
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