The temperature on December 4, 1869 was about -0.2 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the south east. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 79%. 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).
January 27 » Boshin War: Tokugawa rebels establish the Ezo Republic in Hokkaidō.
May 10 » The First Transcontinental Railroad, linking the eastern and western United States, is completed at Promontory Summit, Utah with the golden spike.
May 15 » Women's suffrage: In New York, Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton form the National Woman Suffrage Association.
August 29 » The Mount Washington Cog Railway opens, making it the world's first mountain-climbing rack railway.
October 5 » The Hennepin Island tunnel collapses during construction, nearly destroying St. Anthony Falls.
October 16 » The Cardiff Giant, one of the most famous American hoaxes, is "discovered".
Day of marriage November 30, 1895
The temperature on November 30, 1895 was about 4.2 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 98%. Source: KNMI
January 12 » The National Trust is founded in the United Kingdom.
March 19 » Auguste and Louis Lumière record their first footage using their newly patented cinematograph.
April 3 » The trial in the libel case brought by Oscar Wilde begins, eventually resulting in his imprisonment on charges of homosexuality.
September 3 » John Brallier becomes the first openly professional American football player, when he was paid US$10 by David Berry, to play for the Latrobe Athletic Association in a 12-0 win over the Jeanette Athletic Association.
October 4 » Horace Rawlins wins the first U.S. Open Men's Golf Championship.
November 28 » The first American automobile race takes place over the 54 miles from Chicago's Jackson Park to Evanston, Illinois. Frank Duryea wins in approximately 10 hours.
Day of death September 12, 1954
The temperature on September 12, 1954 was between 11.9 °C and 17.1 °C and averaged 13.7 °C. There was 2.1 mm of rain during 0.7 hours. There was 4.4 hours of sunshine (34%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
January 14 » The Hudson Motor Car Company merges with Nash-Kelvinator Corporation forming the American Motors Corporation.
February 15 » Canada and the United States agree to construct the Distant Early Warning Line, a system of radar stations in the far northern Arctic regions of Canada and Alaska.
February 23 » The first mass inoculation of children against polio with the Salk vaccine begins in Pittsburgh.
July 15 » First flight of the Boeing 367-80, prototype for both the Boeing 707 and C-135 series.
September 11 » Hurricane Edna hits New England as a Category 2 hurricane, causing significant damage and 29 deaths.
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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