The temperature on March 4, 1869 was about 4.0 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 6 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 67%. 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).
March 6 » Dmitri Mendeleev presents the first periodic table to the Russian Chemical Society.
April 28 » Chinese and Irish laborers for the Central Pacific Railroad working on the First Transcontinental Railroad lay ten miles of track in one day, a feat which has never been matched.
May 10 » The First Transcontinental Railroad, linking the eastern and western United States, is completed at Promontory Summit, Utah with the golden spike.
July 10 » Gävle, Sweden, is largely destroyed in a fire; 80% of its 10,000 residents are left homeless.
August 16 » Battle of Acosta Ñu: A Paraguayan battalion made up of children is massacred by the Brazilian Army during the Paraguayan War.
October 5 » The Hennepin Island tunnel collapses during construction, nearly destroying St. Anthony Falls.
Day of marriage August 6, 1896
The temperature on August 6, 1896 was about 16.0 °C. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 74%. Source: KNMI
January 4 » Utah is admitted as the 45th U.S. state.
June 2 » Guglielmo Marconi applies for a patent for his wireless telegraph.
June 4 » Henry Ford completes the Ford Quadricycle, his first gasoline-powered automobile, and gives it a successful test run.
August 17 » Bridget Driscoll became the first recorded case of a pedestrian killed in a collision with a motor car in the United Kingdom.
December 17 » Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania's Schenley Park Casino, which was the first multi-purpose arena with the technology to create an artificial ice surface in North America, is destroyed in a fire.
December 30 » Canadian ice hockey player Ernie McLea scores the first hat-trick in Stanley Cup play, and the Cup-winning goal as the Montreal Victorias defeat the Winnipeg Victorias 6–5.
Day of death January 1, 1947
The temperature on January 1, 1947 was between 0.1 °C and 6.1 °C and averaged 3.0 °C. There was 0.3 mm of rain during 0.6 hours. There was 2.4 hours of sunshine (31%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
January 22 » KTLA, the first commercial television station west of the Mississippi River, begins operation in Hollywood.
April 16 » Bernard Baruch first applies the term "Cold War" to describe the relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union.
November 2 » In California, designer Howard Hughes performs the maiden (and only) flight of the Hughes H-4 Hercules (also known as the "Spruce Goose"), the largest fixed-wing aircraft ever built.
November 29 » Partition Plan: The United Nations General Assembly approves a plan for the partition of Palestine.
December 17 » First flight of the Boeing B-47 Stratojet strategic bomber.
December 30 » Cold War: King Michael I of Romania is forced to abdicate by the Soviet Union-backed Communist government of Romania.
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