The temperature on February 20, 1867 was about 8.7 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the west. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 89%. 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).
January 8 » African American men are granted the right to vote in Washington, D.C.
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.
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.
December 2 » At Tremont Temple in Boston, British author Charles Dickens gives his first public reading in the United States.
Day of marriage May 25, 1890
The temperature on May 25, 1890 was about 21.3 °C. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the north-northwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 52%. Source: KNMI
January 25 » Nellie Bly completes her round-the-world journey in 72 days.
July 2 » The U.S. Congress passes the Sherman Antitrust Act.
July 3 » Idaho is admitted as the 43rd U.S. state.
August 7 » Anna Månsdotter became the last woman to be executed in Sweden for the 1889 Yngsjö murder.
September 12 » Salisbury, Rhodesia, is founded.
December 30 » Following the Wounded Knee Massacre, the United States Army and Lakota warriors face off in the Drexel Mission Fight.
Day of death May 7, 1961
The temperature on May 7, 1961 was between 8.5 °C and 15.6 °C and averaged 12.3 °C. There was 2.3 mm of rain during 2.0 hours. There was 10.6 hours of sunshine (70%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-southwest. Source: KNMI
January 8 » In France a referendum supports Charles de Gaulle's policies in Algeria.
January 25 » In Washington, D.C., President John F. Kennedy delivers the first live presidential television news conference.
April 17 » Bay of Pigs Invasion: A group of Cuban exiles financed and trained by the CIA lands at the Bay of Pigs in Cuba with the aim of ousting Fidel Castro.
May 25 » Apollo program: U.S. President John F. Kennedy announces, before a special joint session of the U.S. Congress, his goal to initiate a project to put a "man on the Moon" before the end of the decade.
September 11 » Hurricane Carla strikes the Texas coast as a Category 4 hurricane, the second strongest storm ever to hit the state.
December 17 » Niterói circus fire: Fire breaks out during a performance by the Gran Circus Norte-Americano in the city of Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, killing more than 500.
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