The temperature on May 25, 1872 was about 15.7 °C. The air pressure was 6 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the north. The atmospheric humidity was 61%. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from January 4, 1871 to July 6, 1872 the cabinet Thorbecke III, with Mr. J.R. Thorbecke (liberaal) as prime minister.
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).
February 22 » The Prohibition Party holds its first national convention in Columbus, Ohio, nominating James Black as its presidential nominee.
March 1 » Yellowstone National Park is established as the world's first national park.
March 5 » George Westinghouse patents the air brake.
May 22 » Reconstruction Era: President Ulysses S. Grant signs the Amnesty Act into law, restoring full civil and political rights to all but about 500 Confederate sympathizers.
November 9 » The Great Boston Fire of 1872.
December 4 » The crewless American brigantine Mary Celeste, drifting in the Atlantic, is discovered by the Canadian brig Dei Gratia. The ship has been abandoned for nine days but is only slightly damaged. Her master Benjamin Briggs and all nine others known to have been on board are never accounted for.
Day of marriage May 25, 1898
The temperature on May 25, 1898 was about 13.1 °C. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 74%. Source: KNMI
January 13 » Émile Zola's J'accuse…! exposes the Dreyfus affair.
June 11 » The Hundred Days' Reform, a planned movement to reform social, political, and educational institutions in China, is started by the Guangxu Emperor, but is suspended by Empress Dowager Cixi after 104 days. (The failed reform led to the abolition of the Imperial examination in 1905.)
June 17 » The United States Navy Hospital Corps is established.
June 21 » The United States captures Guam from Spain. The few warning shots fired by the U.S. naval vessels are misinterpreted as salutes by the Spanish garrison, which was unaware that the two nations were at war.
August 13 » Carl Gustav Witt discovers 433 Eros, the first near-Earth asteroid to be found.
August 28 » Caleb Bradham's beverage "Brad's Drink" is renamed "Pepsi-Cola".
Day of death January 6, 1899
The temperature on January 6, 1899 was about -3.8 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 100%. Source: KNMI
January 23 » The Malolos Constitution is inaugurated, establishing the First Philippine Republic. Emilio Aguinaldo is sworn in as its first President.
March 31 » Malolos, capital of the First Philippine Republic, is captured by American forces.
September 23 » The American Asiatic Squadron destroys a Filipino battery at the Battle of Olongapo.
November 2 » The Boers begin their 118-day siege of British-held Ladysmith during the Second Boer War.
December 11 » Second Boer War: In the Battle of Magersfontein the Boers commanded by general Piet Cronjé inflict a defeat on the forces of the British Empire commanded by Lord Methuen trying to relieve the Siege of Kimberley.
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