The temperature on December 6, 1861 was about -0.4 °C. The air pressure was 0.5 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the south-southeast. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 100%. Source: KNMI
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).
January 29 » Kansas is admitted as the 34th U.S. state.
March 20 » An earthquake destroys Mendoza, Argentina.
April 15 » President Abraham Lincoln calls for 75,000 Volunteers to quell the insurrection that soon became the American Civil War.
September 3 » American Civil War: Confederate General Leonidas Polk invades neutral Kentucky, prompting the state legislature to ask for Union assistance.
November 1 » American Civil War: U.S. President Abraham Lincoln appoints George B. McClellan as the commander of the Union Army, replacing General Winfield Scott.
November 7 » American Civil War: Battle of Belmont: In Belmont, Missouri, Union forces led by General Ulysses S. Grant overrun a Confederate camp but are forced to retreat when Confederate reinforcements arrive.
Day of marriage October 2, 1890
The temperature on October 2, 1890 was about 11.2 °C. There was 0.4 mm of rain. The air pressure was 5 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the north-northwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 77%. Source: KNMI
April 7 » Completion of the first Lake Biwa Canal.
April 14 » The Pan-American Union is founded by the First International Conference of American States in Washington, D.C.
July 10 » Wyoming is admitted as the 44th U.S. state.
October 11 » In Washington, D.C., the Daughters of the American Revolution is founded.
November 4 » City and South London Railway: London's first deep-level tube railway opens between King William Street and Stockwell.
December 30 » Following the Wounded Knee Massacre, the United States Army and Lakota warriors face off in the Drexel Mission Fight.
Day of death January 23, 1937
The temperature on January 23, 1937 was between 4.3 °C and 11.9 °C and averaged 8.2 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain during 0.3 hours. There was 5.1 hours of sunshine (59%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south east. Source: KNMI
April 26 » Spanish Civil War: Guernica, Spain, is bombed by German Luftwaffe.
June 30 » The world's first emergency telephone number, 999, is introduced in London.
July 7 » The Marco Polo Bridge Incident provides the Imperial Japanese Army with a pretext for starting the Second Sino-Japanese War.
July 7 » The Peel Commission Report recommends the partition of Palestine, which was the first formal recommendation for partition in the history of Palestine.
July 24 » Alabama drops rape charges against the "Scottsboro Boys".
August 1 » Josip Broz Tito reads the resolution "Manifesto of constitutional congress of KPH" to the constitutive congress of KPH (Croatian Communist Party) in woods near Samobor.
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