The temperature on May 22, 1871 was about 15.9 °C. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the east-northeast. The atmospheric humidity was 46%. 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.
March 27 » The first international rugby football match, when Scotland defeats England in Edinburgh at Raeburn Place.
May 21 » Opening of the first rack railway in Europe, the Rigi Bahnen on Mount Rigi.
June 16 » The Universities Tests Act 1871 allows students to enter the universities of Oxford, Cambridge and Durham without religious tests (except for those intending to study theology).
July 29 » The Connecticut Valley Railroad opens between Old Saybrook, Connecticut and Hartford, Connecticut in the United States.
July 30 » The Staten Island Ferry Westfield's boiler explodes, killing over 85 people.
October 10 » Chicago burns after a barn accident. The fire lasts from October 8–10.
Day of marriage May 31, 1901
The temperature on May 31, 1901 was between 14.2 °C and 22.4 °C and averaged 17.1 °C. There was 1.1 hours of sunshine (7%). Source: KNMI
June 17 » The College Board introduces its first standardized test, the forerunner to the SAT.
August 10 » The U.S. Steel recognition strike by the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers begins.
October 29 » In Amherst, Massachusetts, nurse Jane Toppan is arrested for murdering the Davis family of Boston with an overdose of morphine.
October 29 » Leon Czolgosz, the assassin of U.S. President William McKinley, is executed by electrocution.
December 10 » The first Nobel Prize ceremony is held in Stockholm on the fifth anniversary of Alfred Nobel's death.
Day of death January 17, 1949
The temperature on January 17, 1949 was between 6.4 °C and 8.8 °C and averaged 7.4 °C. The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west. Source: KNMI
From August 7, 1948 till March 15, 1951 the Netherlands had a cabinet Drees - Van Schaik with the prime ministers Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) and Mr. J.R.H. van Schaik (KVP).
January 2 » Luis Muñoz Marín is inaugurated as the first democratically elected Governor of Puerto Rico.
January 15 » Chinese Civil War: The Communist forces take over Tianjin from the Nationalist Government.
February 15 » Gerald Lankester Harding and Roland de Vaux begin excavations at Cave 1 of the Qumran Caves, where they will eventually discover the first seven Dead Sea Scrolls.
February 19 » Ezra Pound is awarded the first Bollingen Prize in poetry by the Bollingen Foundation and Yale University.
August 24 » The treaty creating the North Atlantic Treaty Organization goes into effect.
October 14 » The Smith Act trials of Communist Party leaders in the United States convicts eleven defendants of conspiring to advocate the violent overthrow of the federal government.
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