The temperature on December 20, 1871 was about 5.9 °C. There was 0.7 mm of rain. The air pressure was 23 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the south-southwest. The atmospheric humidity was 91%. 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.
January 18 » Wilhelm I of Germany is proclaimed Kaiser Wilhelm in the Hall of Mirrors of the Palace of Versailles (France) towards the end of the Franco-Prussian War. Wilhelm already had the title of German Emperor since the constitution of 1 January 1871, but he had hesitated to accept the title.
March 26 » The elections of Commune council of the Paris Commune are held.
July 20 » British Columbia joins the confederation of Canada.
October 8 » The Great Chicago Fire and the much deadlier Peshtigo Fire break out.
October 10 » Chicago burns after a barn accident. The fire lasts from October 8–10.
November 10 » Henry Morton Stanley locates missing explorer and missionary, Dr David Livingstone in Ujiji, near Lake Tanganyika, famously greeting him with the words, "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?".
Day of death January 11, 1960
The temperature on January 11, 1960 was between -8.1 °C and 1.9 °C and averaged -1.5 °C. There was 1.8 mm of rain during 1.4 hours. There was 1.1 hours of sunshine (14%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north. Source: KNMI
February 1 » Four black students stage the first of the Greensboro sit-ins at a lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina.
February 8 » Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom issues an Order-in-Council, stating that she and her family would be known as the House of Windsor, and that her descendants will take the name Mountbatten-Windsor.
April 27 » Togo gains independence from French-administered UN trusteeship.
May 7 » Cold War: U-2 Crisis of 1960: Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev announces that his nation is holding American U-2 pilot Gary Powers.
August 16 » Cyprus gains its independence from the United Kingdom.
December 11 » French forces crack down in a violent clash with protesters in French Algeria during a visit by French President Charles de Gaulle.
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