The temperature on February 24, 1869 was about 1.9 °C. There was 4 mm of rain. The air pressure was 12 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the south. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 96%. 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).
March 24 » The last of Titokowaru's forces surrendered to the New Zealand government, ending his uprising.
July 10 » Gävle, Sweden, is largely destroyed in a fire; 80% of its 10,000 residents are left homeless.
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.
November 11 » The Victorian Aboriginal Protection Act is enacted in Australia, giving the government control of indigenous people's wages, their terms of employment, where they could live, and of their children, effectively leading to the Stolen Generations.
November 17 » In Egypt, the Suez Canal, linking the Mediterranean Sea with the Red Sea, is inaugurated.
Day of marriage August 12, 1893
The temperature on August 12, 1893 was about 19.9 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 90%. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from August 21, 1891 to May 9, 1894 the cabinet Van Tienhoven, with Mr. G. van Tienhoven (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
January 21 » The Tati Concessions Land, formerly part of Matabeleland, is formally annexed to the Bechuanaland Protectorate, now Botswana.
June 22 » The Royal Navy battleship HMSCamperdown accidentally rams the British Mediterranean Fleet flagship HMSVictoria which sinks taking 358 crew with her, including the fleet's commander, Vice-Admiral Sir George Tryon.
August 27 » The Sea Islands hurricane strikes the United States near Savannah, Georgia, killing between 1,000–2,000 people.
September 16 » Settlers make a land run for prime land in the Cherokee Strip in Oklahoma.
November 1 » The Battle of Bembezi took place and was the most decisive battle won by the British in the First Matabele War of 1893.
November 7 » Women's suffrage: Women in the U.S. state of Colorado are granted the right to vote, the second state to do so.
Day of death April 10, 1957
The temperature on April 10, 1957 was between 4.3 °C and 10.2 °C and averaged 6.8 °C. There was 1.2 hours of sunshine (9%). The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. Source: KNMI
January 1 » George Town, Penang, is made a city by a royal charter of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom.
March 29 » The New York, Ontario and Western Railway makes its final run, the first major U.S. railroad to be abandoned in its entirety.
July 28 » Heavy rain and a mudslide in Isahaya, western Kyushu, Japan, kills 992.
September 4 » American Civil Rights Movement: Little Rock Crisis: Orval Faubus, governor of Arkansas, calls out the National Guard to prevent African American students from enrolling in Central High School.
September 5 » Cuban Revolution: Fulgencio Batista bombs the revolt in Cienfuegos.
October 14 » At least 81 people are killed in the most devastating flood in the history of the Spanish city of Valencia.
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