The temperature on August 11, 1872 was about 20.0 °C. There was 0.6 mm of rain. The air pressure was 23 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the west-southwest. The atmospheric humidity was 60%. Source: KNMI
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.
From July 6, 1872 till August 27, 1874 the Netherlands had a cabinet De Vries - Fransen van de Putte with the prime ministers Mr. G. de Vries Azn. (liberaal) and I.D. Fransen van de Putte (liberaal).
January 12 » Yohannes IV is crowned Emperor of Ethiopia in Axum, the first imperial coronation in that city in over 200 years.
February 20 » The Metropolitan Museum of Art opens in New York City.
March 11 » Construction of the Seven Sisters Colliery, South Wales, begins; located on one of the richest coal sources in Britain.
May 22 » Reconstruction Era: President Ulysses S. Grant signs the Amnesty Act into law, restoring full civil and political rights to all but about 500 Confederate sympathizers.
July 18 » The Ballot Act 1872 in the United Kingdom introduced the requirement that parliamentary and local government elections be held by secret ballot.
September 18 » King Oscar II accedes to the throne of Sweden–Norway.
Day of marriage February 10, 1900
The temperature on February 10, 1900 was about -10.1 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 90%. Source: KNMI
February 9 » The Davis Cup competition is established.
May 18 » The United Kingdom proclaims a protectorate over Tonga.
July 2 » Jean Sibelius' Finlandia receives its première performance in Helsinki with the Helsinki Philharmonic Society conducted by Robert Kajanus.
July 27 » Kaiser Wilhelm II makes a speech comparing Germans to Huns; for years afterwards, "Hun" would be a disparaging name for Germans.
July 29 » In Italy, King Umberto I of Italy is assassinated by the anarchist Gaetano Bresci.
December 14 » Quantum mechanics: Max Planck presents a theoretical derivation of his black-body radiation law.
Day of death February 5, 1938
The temperature on February 5, 1938 was between 0.9 °C and 10.6 °C and averaged 6.1 °C. There was 7.6 hours of sunshine (82%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
January 3 » The March of Dimes is established as a foundation to combat infant polio by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
January 28 » The World Land Speed Record on a public road is broken by Rudolf Caracciola in the Mercedes-Benz W195 at a speed of 432.7 kilometres per hour (268.9mph).
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".
February 18 » Second Sino-Japanese War: During the Nanking Massacre, the Nanking Safety Zone International Committee is renamed "Nanking International Rescue Committee", and the safety zone in place for refugees falls apart.
April 10 » The 1938 German parliamentary election and referendum seeks approval for a single list of Nazi candidates and the recent annexation of Austria.
October 14 » The first flight of the Curtiss P-40 Warhawk fighter plane.
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