The temperature on June 18, 1870 was about 16.0 °C. The air pressure was 1 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 89%. 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).
January 15 » A political cartoon for the first time symbolizes the Democratic Party with a donkey ("A Live Jackass Kicking a Dead Lion" by Thomas Nast for Harper's Weekly).
March 30 » Texas is readmitted to the United States Congress following Reconstruction.
July 15 » Reconstruction Era of the United States: Georgia becomes the last of the former Confederate states to be readmitted to the Union.
July 19 » Franco-Prussian War: France declares war on Prussia.
August 2 » Tower Subway, the world's first underground tube railway, opens in London, England, United Kingdom.
August 6 » Franco-Prussian War: The Battle of Wörth results in a decisive Prussian victory.
Day of marriage February 12, 1898
The temperature on February 12, 1898 was about 4.7 °C. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 89%. Source: KNMI
January 13 » Émile Zola's J'accuse…! exposes the Dreyfus affair.
February 27 » King George I of Greece survives an assassination attempt.
June 21 » The United States captures Guam from Spain. The few warning shots fired by the U.S. naval vessels are misinterpreted as salutes by the Spanish garrison, which was unaware that the two nations were at war.
July 25 » Spanish-American War: The American invasion of Spanish-held Puerto Rico begins, as United States Army troops under General Nelson A. Miles land and secure the port at Guánica.
September 18 » The Fashoda Incident triggers the last war scare between Britain and France.
December 18 » Gaston de Chasseloup-Laubat sets the first officially recognized land speed record of 39.245mph (63.159km/h) in a Jeantaud electric car.
Day of death April 16, 1944
The temperature on April 16, 1944 was between 9.2 °C and 17.6 °C and averaged 12.6 °C. There was 8.1 mm of rain during 2.3 hours. There was 4.5 hours of sunshine (32%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from July 27, 1941 to February 23, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy II, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
January 31 » World War II: During the Anzio campaign, the 1st Ranger Battalion (Darby's Rangers) is destroyed behind enemy lines in a heavily outnumbered encounter at Battle of Cisterna, Italy.
April 5 » World War II: Two hundred seventy inhabitants of the Greek town of Kleisoura are executed by the Germans.
April 28 » World War II: Nine German E-boats attacked US and UK units during Exercise Tiger, the rehearsal for the Normandy landings, killing 946.
June 9 » World War II: The Soviet Union invades East Karelia and the previously Finnish part of Karelia, occupied by Finland since 1941.
August 20 » World War II: The Battle of Romania begins with a major Soviet Union offensive.
August 24 » World War II: Allied troops begin the attack on Paris.
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