The temperature on June 6, 1869 was about 23.2 °C. The air pressure was 3 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the west by south. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 58%. 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.
April 28 » Chinese and Irish laborers for the Central Pacific Railroad working on the First Transcontinental Railroad lay ten miles of track in one day, a feat which has never been matched.
May 15 » Women's suffrage: In New York, Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton form the National Woman Suffrage Association.
July 25 » The Japanese daimyōs begin returning their land holdings to the emperor as part of the Meiji Restoration reforms. (Traditional Japanese Date: June 17, 1869).
October 16 » The Cardiff Giant, one of the most famous American hoaxes, is "discovered".
November 17 » In Egypt, the Suez Canal, linking the Mediterranean Sea with the Red Sea, is inaugurated.
Day of marriage May 26, 1900
The temperature on May 26, 1900 was about 11.6 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 76%. Source: KNMI
May 17 » Second Boer War: British troops relieve Mafeking.
May 24 » Second Boer War: The United Kingdom annexes the Orange Free State.
June 14 » Hawaii becomes a United States territory.
July 29 » In Italy, King Umberto I of Italy is assassinated by the anarchist Gaetano Bresci.
August 16 » The Battle of Elands River during the Second Boer War ends after a 13-day siege is lifted by the British. The battle had begun when a force of between 2,000 and 3,000 Boers had surrounded a force of 500 Australians, Rhodesians, Canadians and British soldiers at a supply dump at Brakfontein Drift.
September 17 » Philippine–American War: Filipinos under Juan Cailles defeat Americans under Colonel Benjamin F. Cheatham Jr. at Mabitac.
Day of death October 27, 1953
The temperature on October 27, 1953 was between 6.5 °C and 14.5 °C and averaged 10.2 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 6.3 hours of sunshine (63%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
March 5 » Joseph Stalin, the longest serving leader of the Soviet Union, dies at his Volynskoe dacha in Moscow after suffering a cerebral hemorrhage four days earlier.
April 13 » CIA director Allen Dulles launches the mind-control program Project MKUltra.
May 4 » Ernest Hemingway wins the Pulitzer Prize for The Old Man and the Sea.
June 8 » An F5 tornado hits Beecher, Michigan, killing 116, injuring 844, and destroying 340 homes.
July 7 » Ernesto "Che" Guevara sets out on a trip through Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, and El Salvador.
December 10 » British Prime Minister Winston Churchill receives the Nobel Prize in literature.
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