The temperature on January 13, 1867 was about -5.7 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the west. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 93%. 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.
February 13 » Work begins on the covering of the Senne, burying Brussels's primary river and creating the modern central boulevards.
March 1 » Nebraska becomes the 37th U.S. state; Lancaster, Nebraska is renamed Lincoln and becomes the state capital.
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 21 » The Medicine Lodge Treaty is signed by southern Great Plains Indian leaders. The treaty requires Native American Plains tribes to relocate to a reservation in western Oklahoma.
November 23 » The Manchester Martyrs are hanged in Manchester, England, for killing a police officer while freeing two Irish Republican Brotherhood members from custody.
Day of marriage March 11, 1891
The temperature on March 11, 1891 was about 7.7 °C. There was 0.2 mm of rain. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the south-southwest. The airpressure was 74 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 69%. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from April 21, 1888 to August 21, 1891 the cabinet Mackay, with Mr. A. baron Mackay (AR) as prime minister.
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 31 » History of Portugal: The first attempt at a Portuguese republican revolution breaks out in the northern city of Porto.
March 17 » SSUtopia collides with HMSAnson in the Bay of Gibraltar and sinks, killing 562 of the 880 passengers on board.
May 5 » The Music Hall in New York City (later known as Carnegie Hall) has its grand opening and first public performance, with Tchaikovsky as the guest conductor.
August 18 » Major hurricane strikes Martinique, leaving 700 dead.
October 1 » Stanford University opens its doors in California, United States.
October 28 » The Mino–Owari earthquake is the largest inland earthquake in Japan's history.
Day of death June 13, 1938
The temperature on June 13, 1938 was between 9.7 °C and 16.3 °C and averaged 13.0 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 0.3 hours. There was 5.5 hours of sunshine (33%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north. Source: KNMI
February 11 » BBC Television produces the world's first ever science fiction television programme, an adaptation of a section of the Karel Čapek play R.U.R., that coined the term "robot".
March 12 » Anschluss: German troops occupy and absorb Austria.
April 25 » U.S. Supreme Court delivers its opinion in Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins and overturns a century of federal common law.
June 7 » Second Sino-Japanese War: The Chinese Nationalist government creates the 1938 Yellow River flood to halt Japanese forces. Five hundred to nine hundred thousand civilians are killed.
June 24 » Pieces of a meteorite land near Chicora, Pennsylvania. The meteorite is estimated to have weighed 450metric tons when it hit the Earth's atmosphere and exploded.
December 16 » Adolf Hitler institutes the Cross of Honour of the German Mother.
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