The temperature on May 1, 1870 was about 13.7 °C. The air pressure was 21 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 52%. 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).
July 4 » En route from New York to Le Havre, the SS La Bourgogne collides with another ship and sinks off the coast of Sable Island, with the loss of 549 lives.
July 25 » Spanish-American War: The American invasion of Spanish-held Puerto Rico begins, as United States Army troops under General Nelson A. Miles land and secure the port at Guánica.
August 29 » The Goodyear tire company is founded.
September 10 » Empress Elisabeth of Austria is assassinated by Luigi Lucheni.
September 21 » Empress Dowager Cixi seizes power and ends the Hundred Days' Reform in China.
October 14 » The steam ship SSMohegan sinks near the Lizard peninsula, Cornwall, killing 106.
Day of death January 20, 1916
The temperature on January 20, 1916 was between 5.0 °C and 9.3 °C and averaged 7.4 °C. There was 5.7 mm of rain. There was 3.9 hours of sunshine (46%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. 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.
June 5 » World War I: The Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Empire breaks out.
June 10 » The Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Empire was declared by Hussein bin Ali, Sharif of Mecca.
August 14 » Romania declares war on Austria-Hungary.
August 28 » World War I: Italy declares war on Germany.
November 19 » Samuel Goldwyn and Edgar Selwyn establish Goldwyn Pictures.
December 30 » Russian mystic and advisor to the Tsar Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin was murdered by a loyalist group led by Prince Felix Yusupov. His frozen, partially-trussed body was discovered in a Moscow river three days later.
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