The temperature on October 16, 1864 was about 7.6 °C. The air pressure was 2 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the southwest. The airpressure was 76 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 84%. 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 17 » American Civil War: The Battle of Plymouth begins: Confederate forces attack Plymouth, North Carolina.
April 18 » Battle of Dybbøl: A Prussian-Austrian army defeats Denmark and gains control of Schleswig. Denmark surrenders the province in the following peace settlement.
June 30 » U.S. President Abraham Lincoln grants Yosemite Valley to California for "public use, resort and recreation".
July 29 » American Civil War: Confederate spy Belle Boyd is arrested by Union troops and detained at the Old Capitol Prison in Washington, D.C.
August 18 » American Civil War: Battle of Globe Tavern: Union forces try to cut a vital Confederate supply-line into Petersburg, Virginia, by attacking the Wilmington and Weldon Railroad.
October 9 » American Civil War: Union cavalrymen defeat Confederate forces at Toms Brook, Virginia.
Day of marriage March 16, 1893
The temperature on March 16, 1893 was about 8.3 °C. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 91%. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from August 21, 1891 to May 9, 1894 the cabinet Van Tienhoven, with Mr. G. van Tienhoven (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
June 20 » Lizzie Borden is acquitted of the murders of her father and stepmother.
July 9 » Daniel Hale Williams, American heart surgeon, performs the first successful open-heart surgery in United States without anesthesia.
August 14 » France becomes the first country to introduce motor vehicle registration.
September 28 » Foundation of the Portuguese football club FC Porto.
November 12 » Abdur Rahman Khan accepts the Durand Line as the border between Afghanistan and the British Raj.
December 4 » First Matabele War: A patrol of 34 British South Africa Company soldiers is ambushed and annihilated by more than 3,000 Matabele warriors on the Shangani River in Matabeleland.
Day of death May 12, 1953
The temperature on May 12, 1953 was between 5.7 °C and 14.3 °C and averaged 9.4 °C. There was 9.4 hours of sunshine (61%). The partly or heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north. Source: KNMI
February 28 » James Watson and Francis Crick announce to friends that they have determined the chemical structure of DNA; the formal announcement takes place on April 25 following publication in April's Nature (pub. April 2).
March 3 » A De Havilland Comet (Canadian Pacific Air Lines) crashes in Karachi, Pakistan, killing 11.
March 6 » Georgy Malenkov succeeds Joseph Stalin as Premier of the Soviet Union and First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
August 17 » Addiction: First meeting of Narcotics Anonymous takes place, in Southern California.
September 26 » Rationing of sugar in the United Kingdom ends
December 9 » Red Scare: General Electric announces that all communist employees will be discharged from the company.
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