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).
January 15 » Forty people die when ice covering the boating lake at Regent's Park, London, collapses.
February 13 » Work begins on the covering of the Senne, burying Brussels's primary river and creating the modern central boulevards.
March 1 » Nebraska becomes the 37th U.S. state; Lancaster, Nebraska is renamed Lincoln and becomes the state capital.
April 1 » Singapore becomes a British crown colony.
September 2 » Mutsuhito, Emperor Meiji of Japan, marries Masako Ichijō, thereafter known as Empress Shōken.
October 21 » The Medicine Lodge Treaty is signed by southern Great Plains Indian leaders. The treaty requires Native American Plains tribes to relocate to a reservation in western Oklahoma.
Christening day September 1, 1867
The temperature on September 1, 1867 was about 21.3 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 9 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 83%. 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 17 » The first ship passes through the Suez Canal.
March 2 » The U.S. Congress passes the first Reconstruction Act.
May 3 » The Hudson's Bay Company gives up all claims to Vancouver Island.
May 15 » Canadian Bank of Commerce opens for business in Toronto, Ontario. The bank would later merge with Imperial Bank of Canada to become what is CIBC in 1961.
July 17 » Harvard School of Dental Medicine is established in Boston, Massachusetts. It is the first dental school in the U.S. that is affiliated with a university.
November 9 » Tokugawa shogunate hands power back to the Emperor of Japan, starting the Meiji Restoration.
Day of death February 28, 1954
The temperature on February 28, 1954 was between -1.7 °C and 3.4 °C and averaged 0.5 °C. There was 1.5 mm of rain during 3.3 hours. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
May 7 » Indochina War: The Battle of Dien Bien Phu ends in a French defeat and a Viet Minh victory (the battle began on March 13).
May 13 » The original Broadway production of The Pajama Game opens and runs for another 1,063 performances. Later received three Tony Awards for Best Musical, Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical, and Best Choreography.
May 17 » The United States Supreme Court hands down a unanimous decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, outlawing racial segregation in public schools.
July 5 » Elvis Presley records his first single, "That's All Right", at Sun Records in Memphis, Tennessee.
September 8 » The Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) is established.
September 14 » In a top secret nuclear test, a Soviet Tu-4 bomber drops a 40 kiloton atomic weapon just north of Totskoye village.
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