The temperature on December 10, 1869 was about 4.3 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the south-southeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 98%. 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.
March 6 » Dmitri Mendeleev presents the first periodic table to the Russian Chemical Society.
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).
August 2 » Japan's Edo society class system is abolished as part of the Meiji Restoration reforms.
August 29 » The Mount Washington Cog Railway opens, making it the world's first mountain-climbing rack railway.
October 16 » Girton College, Cambridge is founded, becoming England's first residential college for women.
Day of death March 14, 1955
The temperature on March 14, 1955 was between -1.2 °C and 7.3 °C and averaged 3.2 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain during 0.7 hours. There was 7.2 hours of sunshine (61%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. Source: KNMI
May 2 » Tennessee Williams wins the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.
June 14 » Chile becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
July 9 » The Russell–Einstein Manifesto calls for a reduction of the risk of nuclear warfare.
July 15 » Eighteen Nobel laureates sign the Mainau Declaration against nuclear weapons, later co-signed by thirty-four others.
July 27 » The Austrian State Treaty restores Austrian sovereignty.
November 1 » The bombing of United Airlines Flight 629 occurs near Longmont, Colorado, killing all 39 passengers and five crew members aboard the Douglas DC-6B airliner.
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