The temperature on January 10, 1871 was about -0.3 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the south-southeast. The atmospheric humidity was 90%. 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).
In The Netherlands , there was from January 4, 1871 to July 6, 1872 the cabinet Thorbecke III, with Mr. J.R. Thorbecke (liberaal) as prime minister.
February 17 » The victorious Prussian Army parades through Paris, France, after the end of the Siege of Paris during the Franco-Prussian War.
March 18 » Declaration of the Paris Commune; President of the French Republic, Adolphe Thiers, orders the evacuation of Paris.
March 29 » Royal Albert Hall is opened by Queen Victoria.
May 21 » French troops invade the Paris Commune and engage its residents in street fighting. By the close of "Bloody Week", some 20,000 communards have been killed and 38,000 arrested.
September 28 » The Brazilian Parliament passes a law that frees all children thereafter born to slaves, and all government-owned slaves.
October 8 » The Great Chicago Fire and the much deadlier Peshtigo Fire break out.
Day of death March 31, 1958
The temperature on March 31, 1958 was between 0.8 °C and 8.1 °C and averaged 4.5 °C. There was 2.9 hours of sunshine (23%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the east. Source: KNMI
February 5 » A hydrogen bomb known as the Tybee Bomb is lost by the US Air Force off the coast of Savannah, Georgia, never to be recovered.
February 5 » Gamal Abdel Nasser is nominated to be the first president of the United Arab Republic.
February 22 » Egypt and Syria join to form the United Arab Republic.
February 28 » A school bus in Floyd County, Kentucky hits a wrecker truck and plunges down an embankment into the rain-swollen Levisa Fork river. The driver and 26 children die in what remains one of the worst school bus accidents in U.S. history.
May 22 » The 1958 riots in Ceylon become a watershed in the race relations of various ethnic communities of Sri Lanka. The total deaths is estimated at 300, mostly Tamils.
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