The temperature on January 24, 1864 was about 1.6 °C. The air pressure was 0.5 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the west-southwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 93%. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from February 1, 1862 to February 10, 1866 the cabinet Thorbecke II, with Mr. J.R. Thorbecke (liberaal) as prime minister.
April 10 » Archduke Maximilian of Habsburg is proclaimed emperor of Mexico during the French intervention in Mexico.
May 5 » American Civil War: The Battle of the Wilderness begins in Spotsylvania County.
August 5 » American Civil War: The Battle of Mobile Bay begins at Mobile Bay near Mobile, Alabama, Admiral David Farragut leads a Union flotilla through Confederate defenses and seals one of the last major Southern ports.
September 29 » American Civil War: The Battle of Chaffin's Farm is fought.
October 31 » Nevada is admitted as the 36th U.S. state.
November 30 » American Civil War: The Confederate Army of Tennessee suffers heavy losses in an attack on the Union Army of the Ohio in the Battle of Franklin.
Day of marriage July 17, 1890
The temperature on July 17, 1890 was about 17.3 °C. There was 16 mm of rain. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 83%. Source: KNMI
July 10 » Wyoming is admitted as the 44th U.S. state.
September 24 » The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints officially renounces polygamy.
October 1 » Yosemite National Park is established by the U.S. Congress.
November 4 » City and South London Railway: London's first deep-level tube railway opens between King William Street and Stockwell.
November 23 » King William III of the Netherlands dies without a male heir and a special law is passed to allow his daughter Princess Wilhelmina to succeed him.
November 29 » The Meiji Constitution goes into effect in Japan, and the first Diet convenes.
Day of death June 14, 1954
The temperature on June 14, 1954 was between 4.8 °C and 15.0 °C and averaged 11.9 °C. There was 17.7 mm of rain during 6.7 hours. There was 5.5 hours of sunshine (33%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northwest. Source: KNMI
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