The temperature on September 21, 1867 was about 20.0 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the north-northeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 56%. 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 15 » Forty people die when ice covering the boating lake at Regent's Park, London, collapses.
March 2 » The U.S. Congress passes the first Reconstruction Act.
May 3 » The Hudson's Bay Company gives up all claims to Vancouver Island.
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.
October 18 » United States takes possession of Alaska after purchasing it from Russia for $7.2million. Celebrated annually in the state as Alaska Day.
December 2 » At Tremont Temple in Boston, British author Charles Dickens gives his first public reading in the United States.
Day of death January 31, 1962
The temperature on January 31, 1962 was between -6.8 °C and 0.4 °C and averaged -2.6 °C. There was 4.9 hours of sunshine (54%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
January 26 » Ranger 3 is launched to study the Moon. The space probe later misses the moon by 22,000 miles (35,400km).
February 8 » Charonne massacre. Nine trade unionists are killed by French police at the instigation of Nazi collaborator Maurice Papon, then chief of the Paris Prefecture of Police.
March 4 » A Caledonian Airways Douglas DC-7 crashes shortly after takeoff from Cameroon, killing 111 - the worst crash of a DC-7.
April 21 » The Seattle World's Fair (Century 21 Exposition) opens. It is the first World's Fair in the United States since World War II.
August 6 » Jamaica becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
October 27 » Major Rudolf Anderson of the United States Air Force becomes the only direct human casualty of the Cuban Missile Crisis when his U-2 reconnaissance airplane is shot down over Cuba by a Soviet-supplied surface-to-air missile.
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