From February 23, 1860 till March 14, 1861 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Hall - Van Heemstra with the prime ministers Mr. F.A. baron Van Hall (conservatief-liberaal) and Mr. S. baron Van Heemstra (liberaal).
From March 14, 1861 till January 31, 1862 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt - Loudon with the prime ministers Mr. J.P.P. baron Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt (conservatief-liberaal) and Mr. J. Loudon (liberaal).
April 12 » American Civil War: Battle of Fort Sumter. The war begins with Confederate forces firing on Fort Sumter, in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina.
April 13 » American Civil War: Fort Sumter surrenders to Confederate forces.
August 5 » The United States Army abolishes flogging.
August 10 » American Civil War: Battle of Wilson's Creek: A mixed force of Confederate, Missouri State Guard, and Arkansas State troops defeat outnumbered attacking Union forces in the southwestern part of the state.
October 17 » Aborigines kill Nineteen Europeans in the Cullin-la-ringo massacre.
December 26 » American Civil War: The Trent Affair: Confederate diplomatic envoys James Murray Mason and John Slidell are freed by the United States government, thus heading off a possible war between the United States and the United Kingdom.
Day of death June 17, 1953
The temperature on June 17, 1953 was between 10.8 °C and 19.3 °C and averaged 14.5 °C. There was 5.9 mm of rain during 1.9 hours. There was 5.1 hours of sunshine (30%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the south. Source: KNMI
January 14 » Josip Broz Tito is inaugurated as the first President of Yugoslavia.
March 3 » A De Havilland Comet (Canadian Pacific Air Lines) crashes in Karachi, Pakistan, killing 11.
April 27 » Operation Moolah offers $50,000 to any pilot who defected with a fully mission-capable Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15 to South Korea. The first pilot was to receive $100,000.
May 29 » Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay become the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest, on Tenzing Norgay's (adopted) 39th birthday.
June 30 » The first Chevrolet Corvette rolls off the assembly line in Flint, Michigan.
August 12 » The 7.2 Ms Ionian earthquake shakes the southern Ionian Islands with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme). Between 445 and 800 people are killed.
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